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" Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Remember
Too
Cook
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" I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that. "
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" 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. "
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Milk
Colour
" 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. "
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Bread
" Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder? "
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Children
Chocolate
Together
" Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup. "
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Me
" 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. "
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See
" Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own. "
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Texture
Rice
Own
" A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl. "
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Must
Bowl
Perfect
" Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender. "
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Things
Will
Water
" Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes. "
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Building
Spice
Some
" When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Enough
Water
Pasta
" Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles. "
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Mean
Winter
" Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple. "
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You
Simple
Say
" Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness. "
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Breaking
Soothing
Both
" I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Just
Own
Admit
" Healthy is in the eye of the beholder. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Beholder
Eye
Healthy
" There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Places
London
Eat
" Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. "
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Sea
Looks
Health
" Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not. "
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Ingredients
Own
List
" Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Happen
Some
Texture
" Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person. "
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Supper
Much
Believe
" New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs. "
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Pink
Fresh
Shoulder
" Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet. "
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Most
Vegetarian
Still
" I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily. "
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Whatever
Happily
Guilt
" The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes. "
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Lighten
Both
Up
" Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying. "
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Light
Way
Vegetables
" 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. "
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Wonderful
Busy
Cook
" The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit. "
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Kitchen
Crush
Tough
" Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. "
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Fancy
Been
Restaurant
" Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. "
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Sweet
Only
Adulthood