Yotam Ottolenghi Time Quotations

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.