Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.

With their bright color and fantastic balance of acidity and sweetness, tomatoes are a natural refresher and the perfect element for meals on warm and sultry days.

My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.

I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

It's all about the fruit. A crumble should maintain the integrity of the fruit.

I like my coffee sweet and creamy, that's why I drink Great Taste White.

Poached quince are so tender, aromatic, and rosy that you'd hardly believe the raw fruit is white, fibrous, and hard as a rock.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

It’s Kahlua, Sage. Packed with sugar and coffee flavor.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.