Yotam Ottolenghi

A favorite cookbook that isn't your own.

Um, Simple by Otto Lenghi.

It's a really cool book.

Your favorite season for cooking.

What about cookbooks? Are there any cookbooks that inspire you?

There is a big cookbook at my house right now by Otto Lenghi that I think is really cool.

I also have been looking through Bobby Flay's most recent cookbook, which is very beautiful, which is why I think I keep looking at it.

But also, everything in it is really, really cool.

Yep.

But this week, we're gonna talk about my cooking boyfriend, Yotam Ottolenghi.

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You'd know him, Anna, from his amazing cafes in the UK with their big bowls of salads and plates piled high-

His latest book, Simple II, emphasizes how to make delicious food in a hurry with relatively few ingredients.

Yotam Ottolenghi, welcome to the show.

Uh, thank you.

It's very good to be on the show.

Highly recommend it.

Yeah.

You have a section, uh, Yotam Ottolenghi, in the book, and it's about kitchen fundamentals.

And imagine whether you're a busy parent or even if you don't have kids, you know, that notion of having something that you can just go to in the fridge, you know, to add to a dish or to, to, you know, to spice something up.

all these wonderful shortcuts.

Can you believe that that's Yotam Ottolenghi? For years, he was the cook who got us buying black limes, pomegranate molasses.

He's probably the reason those items are easier to find these days.

But still, some of his go-to ingredients remain elusive.

And these days, I think there's just so many wonderful things to use in order to avoid spending two hours on a meal.

You can really do it all in half an hour.

Where does Yotam Ottolenghi draw the line, though? Are you someone who'll look at the hassle of chopping an onion or crushing garlic and turn to garlic powder or onion powder? Yeah.

I do not look at it like that.

So we just essentially got Ottolenghi and, um-

Thank you Yotam

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Jelena's cookbook.

Yeah.

Maybe they make, like, Yotam Ottolenghi's preserved lemons.

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