“New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a m...” — Yotam Ottolenghi Quote

New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.

Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.