Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things.

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my apprenticeship at a bakery.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.

I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

I love cooking and baking.

I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

I love to jump around, bounce around, and be active, which is one of the other reasons I decided to pursue a career in the kitchen. I work 12-18 hours a day, and most of it is spent doing just that - jumping, bouncing, and baking.

I love to cook; I love to bake. It's, like, my favorite thing besides acting.

In baking, cooks need to understand ingredient ratios.

I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.

Baking is one of my many hobbies. I was originally introduced to baking as a child by my grandmother. I continued to bake for friends and family throughout the years for special occasions. I began to create themed treats after receiving continued requests from a lot of my friends.

The 'Momofuku Milk Bar' cookbook is rather technical. I wanted it to feel like you were walking into the doors of our kitchen, it was your first day at work, and we were going to teach you everything.

I took a Chinatown bus to New York to enroll in the International Culinary Center's pastry program.

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Since I was a kid, baking has been part of my life.

I went to culinary school to eat.

I think baking's far easier than cooking, and because of that, it's more approachable.