ster is an invitation to play with your food and enjoy the adventure. Born from the successful restaurant in inner Sydney, NSW, Ester is proudly not a restaurant book. Think of it more as the foundations for some new ideas in your kitchen and at your table; written to be used, shared, read aloud, made messy and perhaps burnt. At the restaurant, chef Mat Lindsay’s food is all about the wood-fired oven and the magic it imparts, but the fundamentals don’t change at home. Everything in this book can be made delicious wherever you live. The ethos of Lindsay’s acclaimed and widely beloved Chippendale restaurant has always been to offer guests a no-rules good time — and the intention within these pages is just the same. Whether it prompts you to
