Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 14, 1968

Topics

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I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleFamousWorryNobodyMeet

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Robert M. Pirsig

WorkHeartWorldHandsPlaceFirst

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Tori Amos

LifeMyselfPainMeGive MeGive

I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.

Ry Cooder

DayPeopleBelieveInterestingSay

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Roman Coppola

HomeBeautifulSisterHotelWedding

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Mohnish Pabrai

LoveSuccessGoodIdeasProudCopy

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

Jose Mourinho

DayMeGoManagerWayTwo

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

Derek Walcott

I AmCaribbeanAbsolutelyWriterAm

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

Chris Pine

EyesGreatGrowing UpYouBodyLook

In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential candidate, along with other choices such as 'Happy' Chandler and General Curtis LeMay. However, I am not interested in any political office in the United States or anywhere, now or back in 1968.

Colonel Sanders

I AmHappyMeChoicesPoliticalNow

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Colin Angle

IntelligenceCoolSocietyInteresting

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

William H. McRaven

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