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.

Kibbeh comes in all forms, but most feature bulgur and meat.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake Off' is a happy show; there is no bad language, and although we do have drama, we deal with it calmly.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.