Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

Everyone's a taste-maker.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.

The biggest myth I'd like to bust isn't about me - it's about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form through highbrow snobbery, but I think a lot of those people would be suprised if they actually saw some.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

No man can see his own prejudices.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.