Yotam Ottolenghi quotes

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. Its your choice, just say: I am what I am. There are no hardcore divisions anymore. (Yotam Ottolenghi)
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. View quote
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally. View quote
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The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things. View quote
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there. View quote
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects. View quote
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned. View quote
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it. View quote
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If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there. View quote
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Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes. View quote
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Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work. (Yotam Ottolenghi)
Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard. View quote
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Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. View quote
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity. View quote
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Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth. View quote
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough. View quote
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not. View quote
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I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue. View quote
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to. View quote
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating. View quote
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours. (Yotam Ottolenghi)
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one. View quote
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. View quote
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Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel. View quote
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For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. View quote
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