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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Time
Vegetables
Long
Long Time
Take
Term
Cuisines
Certain
Use
Cooked
European
Al
Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Home
Me
Too
Recipes
Books
Purely
Frightening
Quite
Full
Many
Even
I do support people eating more vegetables. It's a good thing to do.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Good
People
Vegetables
Eating
More
Good Thing
Support
Thing
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Eye Of The Beholder
Healthy
Eye
Beholder
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Me
Knowledge
Impart
Because
Least
Where
Teaching
Naturally
Thing
Things
If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You
Yourself
Taste
Ask
Ingredient
Why
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Time
Religion
You
Kind
Some
Case
Vegetarianism
Either
Much
Used
Now
Belong
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi
People
World
Eat
Vast
Parts
Meat
These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
Yotam Ottolenghi
People
More
Open
Days
Like
Personal
Meals
Preferences
Themselves
Serve
I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Guilt
Whatever
Happily
When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
Yotam Ottolenghi
People
Father
Some People
Meal
Desserts
Some
Main
He
Put
Wrong
Like
Get
Just
Them
Separate
Cook
Plate
Even
Keep
Serve
Things
Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You
Men
Think
Say
Bit
Signature
Find
Angle
Most
Make
Unusual
Pasta
Dish
Little
Little Bit
Should
Cook
Your
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food
Word
Guardian
Mouth
Journalism
Between
Blog
Blogging
Word-Of-Mouth
Bridges
Gap
Serious
Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?
Yotam Ottolenghi
Together
Party
Own
Breakfast
Melted
Some
Only
Come
Spoon
Children
Holder
Chocolate
Pops
Treats
Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Morning
Every
Back
Way
Bake
Operating
Chef
Junior
Pastry
While
Muffins
Many
Loads
As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You
Cooking
Sweet
Approach
Find
Something
Rather
More
Balanced
Calming
Juice
Lemon
Use
I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Good
Twitter
Hooked
Fact
Had
Come
Terms
Am
There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Love
Home
Shared
Knew
Feel
Well
Arrived
Were
Pinpoint
Realised
Might
Asked
Moment
Reasons
Many
British
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food
Young
Meal
Way
Out
About
Over
Than
Going
Less
Enjoyable
Enjoying
The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
Yotam Ottolenghi
White
Outer
Brown
Between
Intact
Germ
Difference
Former
Rice
Therefore
Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Needs
People
Seriously
Dinner
Defence
Tables
Divisive
Like
Most
Make
Going
Capable
Team
Ever
A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food
Those
Small
Blender
Bowls
Stick
Real
Fit
Even
Treasure
Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Love
Great
Nuts
Plenty
Juice
Affinity
Oil
Lemon
Them
Chopped
Garlic
Jerusalem
Olive
Olive Oil
Herbs
My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Sweet
Add
Secret
Some
Sharp
Lots
Offset
Intensity
The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food
Day
Every Day
Every
Eat
Absolute
Could
Combination
Comfort
Comfort Food
Rice
Height
Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You
White
Panic
About
Hot
Without
Calmly
Fish
Moderately
Oil
Flesh
Usual
Prepare
Sauce
Guarantees
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