Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year - and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.

Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew.

And he, he himself, the Grinch - carved the roast beast.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey.

One Christmas, when Freddie and I were flatmates in Kensington, we were trying to cook Christmas dinner, but all we had was a packet of bread sauce that you make with water. We used to dream of a can of beans.

I cannot stand when you go to a wedding and get fed tiny portions. I want everyone to have a good feed on my wedding day, so I plan on having several types of sausage, mash, and gravy up for grabs. Every guest will have a Yorkshire pudding, too!

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

I like to party at Christmas. We always have a duck, which my brother prepares.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.