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Yotam Ottolenghi Discusses Art Of Not Overcooking Greens At NPR

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, June 27th, 2011 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Recipes.

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Yotam Ottolenghi keeps plenty of tricks up his sleeve. Like an abundance of herbs to beautify and liven up a dish and the pomegranate seeds he calls the “Jewels in the Crown.”

Yotam uses these tricks in his vegetable cookbook Plenty, and NPR recently interviewed the chef to learn how he makes magic with vegetables, including not overcooking your greens.

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Yotam Ottolenghi Cooking Everything But Animals At LA Restaurant

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

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Yotam Ottolenghi (that guy who annoyed everybody by saying even fish eaters can call themselves vegetarian) will be cooking a true vegetarian meal at the most ironic of restaurants in July.

Ottolenghi will offer an evening of himself, an optional wine pairing and his recipes from his latest cookbook, Plenty, at Animal restaurant in Los Angeles.

If the name “Animal” doesn’t already have your stomach churning, please know this is the restaurant owned by Jon Shook, the boyfriend of former vegan Shiri Appleby, who said she was motivated to eat his pig ears, foie  gras and rabbit legs after deciding no respectable man would date a vegan girl.

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Yotam Ottolenghi Gives “Plenty” Of Reasons To Like Vegetables

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 15th, 2011 in Books, Chefs, Food & Drink.

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Yotam Ottolenghi gave vegetarians and vegans “plenty” of reasons to dislike him when he decided to redefine vegetarian, saying it was okay to eat fish and there were “no hard core boundaries anymore.”

His latest cookbook, Plenty, doesn’t appear to be competing with Webster’s by changing the definition of vegetarian, and is filled with 120 recipes organized by vegetable.

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