What Yotam Ottolenghi thinks about simplicity
Israeli-British chef, restaurateur and food writer; co-owner with Sami Tamimi of the Ottolenghi delis and restaurants in London, and author of Plenty (2010), Jerusalem (2012) and Simple (2018).
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Yotam Ottolenghi has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThere are no simple solutions in diet.
Their wordsThe idea that we can transform our diet in a radical way to make things simple – nutrients, Mediterranean, healthy, happy, satisfied – is an illusion. There aren’t simple solutions.
↗Yotam Ottolenghi: I tried intermittent fasting, and hated it. This is why we need to ditch the diets and go back to basicstheguardian.com 6th of 8 in this piece