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Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
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Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli
Chef
Born:
Dec 14
,
1968
Cooking
Food
Great
People
Sweet
You
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food
Brown
Vegetarian
Stereotypical
Looks
Gray
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Made
Sweet
Potatoes
Cabbage
Crumbs
Red
She
Cauliflower
Maternal
Ox
Bread
Lovely
Fantastic
Grandmother
Cooked
Butter
Tongue
I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
Yotam Ottolenghi
World
Valuable
White
Sidekick
Brown
Varied
Lead
Knees
Understand
How
Bee
Cultivated
Rice
Now
Play
New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Perfect
Fresh
Mixture
Pink
Lamb
Shoulder
Cooked
Platform
Herbs
Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Believe
Supper
Person
Fan
Shortcut
Much
Next
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You
Conflict
Mind
State
Bother
Very
Much
I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Love
Result
Sometimes
Too Much
Degree
Lost
Too
Dining
Fine
About
Because
Effort
Little
To Love
Much
Used
Appetite
When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Battle
Win
Down
Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Health
Food
You
Dark
Similar
Online
Like
Looks
Texture
Get
Stores
Spaghetti
Sea
Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Matter
Gone
Sloppy
Take
Almost
Attention
Always
How
How Much
Salad
Getting
Average
Much
Much Attention
Your
Mush
I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Fruit
Else
Forbidden
Sure
Am
Anything
Anything Else
Story
Fig
Eve
Apple
Adam
Adam And Eve
Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You
Other
Recipes
Component
Ability
Like
Because
Does
Up
Textures
Yogurt
May
Regular
Noticed
Many
Now
Round
Presence
Sauce
The addition of vinaigrette to freshly roasted vegetables gives them a freshness and juiciness they don't normally have; the acidity brings out new shades of flavour, too.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Vegetables
Too
Addition
Out
Shades
Gives
New
Freshness
Normally
Them
Brings
My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Day
Needs
Father
Meal
Chunks
Out
More
Excess
He
Always
Surface
Spreads
Salad
Fries
Than
Oil
Chills
Them
Cuts
Next
Cooks
Serve
Olive
Olive Oil
Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Winter
Mean
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Some
Stirred
Greek
Yogurt
Oil
Dishes
Transform
Many
Olive
Olive Oil
Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Recipes
Incredibly
Concerned
Where
Vague
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Bite
Harsh
Bitter
Raw
Garlic
For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Christmas
Home
Me
You
Big
Build
Own
Approximation
Those
Foil
Lid
Given
Rely
Like
Smoker
Roll
Tin
Just
Being
Which
Your
Who
Pan
Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Back
Those
Kitchen
No-One
Days
Knows
Shelf
Cupboard
Quite
Ingredients
Many
Homes
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Own
Every
Later
Considered
Era
Years
Exotic
List
Then
Ingredients
I like to add something unusual to a dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Add
Something
Like
Unusual
Dish
Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Bit
Brown
Perceived
Cakes
Always
Fish
Dull
Quite
Being
Little
British
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food
Wonderful
Three
Busy
Too
Recipes
Out
Only
He
Likes
Makes
Articles
Ingredients
Cook
Uses
Dad
Mum
Thinks
Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Eat
Exciting
Most
Israel
Place
There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Good
Old
Nothing
Lasted
Recipe
Like
Then
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