Yotam Ottolenghi

Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

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.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.