Taste Tibet

Born and raised in rural Tibet, Yeshi grew up herding livestock on the high reaches of the Tibetan Plateau. He learned to cook inside a yak hair tent at a young age. When he was nineteen, Yeshi walked across the Himalayas to northern India, where he later met Julie.
Yeshi’s mouthwatering momos won Julie’s heart, and they are now married with two children and living in Oxford, UK.

In 2014, Yeshi and Julie started the Taste Tibet food stall. In 2020, during the most locked down days of the 202 Covid pandemic, they opened their first restaurant.

The Taste Tibet Cookbook was published in March 2022. It was shortlisted in the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and is the winner of a Gourmand World Cookbooks Award.

For Yeshi and Julie, food and wellbeing is a passion, and they have made it their mission to get Tibet on the global culinary map.

Join them at Black Catcus Cafe when they'll be bringing a little bit of Tibet to Shaftesbury.

About the Book

“An unbeatable introduction to Tibetan cuisine and culture… A ground-breaking book.”

“One of the most exciting aspects about being in the food and cooking world for over six decades is the discovery of Taste Tibet.” Ken Hom, OBE – Chef, author and broadcaster

Taste Tibet is a collection of over 80 recipes from the Tibetan Plateau written for today’s home cook. Learn to create comforting soups, stews and hand-pulled noodles, as well as Taste Tibet’s legendary momo dumplings. Alongside the recipes, we bring you stories from Yeshi’s home in Tibet and reveal nomadic Himalayan food culture and practices that have much to teach us about conscious consumption in an increasingly environmentally-aware age.

Host or Publisher The Kitchen Table and Zenia Deogan