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" A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Must
Bowl
Perfect
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" A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings. "
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" Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. "
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" One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another. "
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" I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top. "
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" 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. "
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" The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun. "
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" Mackerel is sustainable and healthy. "
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Sustainable
" My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity. "
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Sweet
" Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time. "
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" Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have. "
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Type
Differ
" Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could. "
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People
Way
" Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown. "
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Food
Brown
" Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Could
Over
Pasta
" A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet. "
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Sweet
Spring
" Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour. "
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Delicate
Cooking
Great
" I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour. "
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Always
Texture
" The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. "
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Over
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" 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. "
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Play
White
Understand
" 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. "
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Where
Knowledge
Things
" Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses. "
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Fresher
Light
Go
" I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices. "
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Great
Apple
Sweet
" Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel. "
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Place
Eat
Exciting
" Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online. "
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You
World
" Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle. "
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Word
Cut
" Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting. "
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Your
Ideal
" Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic. "
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Bite
Raw
Harsh
" If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father. "
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Food
Father
Honest
" Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish. "
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Attractive
More
Texture
" You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet. "
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Hand
You
Pasta
" Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. "
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Without
Sugar
Fried