Ottolenghi Recipes Quotes & Sayings

The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others. — Yotam Ottolenghi

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing. — Vicki Baum

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned. — Yotam Ottolenghi

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.' — Jose Saramago

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. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue. — Yotam Ottolenghi

More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not be discouraged if the products of our labor are not read or even known to exist. The joy of research must be found in doing since every other harvest is uncertain. — Theobald Smith

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. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I can't stand recipes that don't have background. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour. — Yotam Ottolenghi

It is the duty of man to raise up man. — Jose Marti

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for
if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most. — Robert A. Heinlein

When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement. — Ken Follett

I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse — Pier Paolo Pasolini

After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly. — Yotam Ottolenghi