Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

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

Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.

I love a good miso soup: it's fermented. It really helps with the immune system. I'll add tofu, carrots and seaweed.

I'm always going on about how I could just eat Japanese food and nothing else until the day I die.

One of my favorite Japanese foods is called natto. It's fermented soybeans. I grew up in Japan eating natto. It's definitely an acquired taste. It's basically smelly.

The northern Japanese ramen is characterised by its miso base. In the south, the ramen may steer more towards a seafood-based broth, while in Tokyo, virtually every style of ramen exists.

Megan Fox finally listened to me... she is now a salmon fan. She will have salmon at least once a day. She'll go have a bunch of salmon sashimi, and she'll have a cucumber salad and miso soup and some edamame.

I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!

I love Japanese food - it's a really healthy way of cooking and it is very easy: I often just steam the vegetables and fish together, make a space for the noodles, and I have a great healthy meal in 15 minutes.

Ramen is Japanese soul food, appealing to old and young, rich and poor.

If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.

The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.

What was the idea behind Hot Pockets? Was there a marketing meeting somewhere, 'Hey I got an idea: How about we take a Pop-Tart and fill it with really nasty meat? You could cook it in a sleeve thing, and you could dunk it in the toilet.'

I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

I tend to come home and eat a bowl of cereal. I'm not thinking about baking a pie when I'm off work.