Ixta Belfrage
Cookbook author and food writer
Ixta Belfrage is a cookbook author who spent five years at the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen. She co-wrote FLAVOUR with Yotam Ottolenghi.
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About Ixta Belfrage
Ixta Belfrage draws on three countries from her upbringing: Brazil, her mother's homeland, Italy, her childhood home for a time, and Mexico, where her grandfather lived. She spent five years at the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen and co-wrote the New York Times bestselling FLAVOUR with Yotam Ottolenghi. Her first solo cookbook, MEZCLA, came out in 2022. It was nominated in the debut cookbook category at the Fortnum & Mason Awards and in the international cookbook category at the James Beard Awards. She has been a Contributing Editor at Elle Magazine and has written for The Guardian, Suitcase Magazine and Pit Magazine.