Cornelia came to Ottolenghi four years ago from Switzerland via an Australian bus station and a sign in our Notting Hill shop. She grew up in the Swiss mountains, but it was while travelling in Asia and Australia that she met her future English husband when they got off the same bus in Queensland.

She fell in love with London and was first introduced to Yotam because her mother in law spotted a notice in the window advertising for staff. Now she is the company’s general manager.

She is the practical one - the one who organizes everyone else and makes things work. Her passion is the people as well as the food. And she is in her element when achieving an elaborate but last minute dinner party for one of our customers.