Julie Kleeman & Yeshi Jampa
Julie and Yeshi are the owners of Taste Tibet, a restaurant and food stall based in Oxford, UK. They cater at big events such as Glastonbury, Latitude and the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival, and their restaurant has been celebrated in the BBC Food Awards (2021) and Observer Food Awards (2022).
Julie grew up in London and began her travels in Asia at the age of seventeen. She studied Chinese at Cambridge University and lived in Beijing for many years. She is the Chief Editor of the Oxford Chinese Dictionary.
Yeshi grew up in Tibet. He herded livestock out on the plateau for six months of every year, living in a tent made from yak hair and learning to cook at young age. When he was nineteen he walked across the Himalayas to India, where he went to school for the first time.
Julie and Yeshi met in Dharamsala in northern India. They share a passion for food and wellbeing, and have been writing about Tibetan life and food culture since 2016. In 2019 Julie won the Yan-Kit So Award for Food Writers on Asia.
Julie and Yeshi’s debut cookbook TASTE TIBET - FAMILY RECIPES FROM THE HIMALAYAS was published by Murdoch Books in Spring 2022 and is the winner of a Gourmand World Cookbook Award.
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