Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Everybody has different tastes. Some people love Italian food; some don't.

Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

A food's value is based on how good it tastes.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

I actually haven't had a Chicago-style hot dog.

Things taste less salty when they're cool.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

I think peas are really nasty. I liked them when I was younger, but I guess when you get older you have different taste buds.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

I'm something of a foodie, I guess, and I'm a big Chinese food fan.

I've loved food since I was little.

I have a large pallette of tastes.

Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.

If you're at a restaurant and someone asks, 'Fresh pepper?,' the answer is yes. When people shake off the fresh pepper, they clearly have no interest in living a full life. Same thing goes for grated Parmesan. Why would you turn that down?