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

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

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

- 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

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

- Yotam Ottolenghi

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

- 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