Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

Desserts are all about form and function, about warm and hot and cold. I want every component to hit your palate on different levels at different times.

The shape of the meat and the taste of it starting from the top down is a part of me. All of my feelings are coming from inside of the meat down to when I put the salt onto the meat.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

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

The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

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.

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.

The addition of vinaigrette to freshly roasted vegetables gives them a freshness and juiciness they don't normally have; the acidity brings out new shades of flavour, too.

With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.

My cooking is simply ingredients plus umami.

At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes.

I adore food and always have.

Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

With us, it's a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.