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" Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Needs
Other
Good
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" Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown. "
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Vegetarian
Food
Brown
" Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Vine
Avoid
Cook
" Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could. "
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Together
People
Way
" 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. "
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Food
Treasure
Even
" The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Great
Difference
Bread
" Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Cooking
Meals
Eating
" Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Recipes
Where
Concerned
" Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Ingredients
Many
Stuff
" Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity. "
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Up
Eating
Like
" Mackerel is sustainable and healthy. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Healthy
Sustainable
" Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Same
Processes
Depth
" Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Spice
Richness
Makes
" Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Believe
Will
I Believe
" Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Union
Love
Me
" If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food
Father
Honest
" Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Most
Vegetarian
Still
" Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Herbs
Much
Deserve
" Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Attractive
More
Texture
" Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Light
Milk
Colour
" Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Sea
Looks
Health
" Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Bite
Raw
Harsh
" What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Worth
Cook
Forgiving
" 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
Wrong
" Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Ingredient
Because
Leaves
" The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Being
Fresh
Green
" Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Kind
Food
See
" The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Quality
Dependent
Salad
" Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Sharpness
Come
Hard
" 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. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Important
Fun
Walk
" The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Tongue
Way
Core