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Food Quotes by Yotam Ottolenghi
- Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.
- My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
- Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
- If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
- Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
- When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre…
- Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
- Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
- The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
- The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
- The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
- If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the…
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