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 cand…

- Yotam Ottolenghi

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

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

It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think…

- Yotam Ottolenghi

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, thou…

- Yotam Ottolenghi