In a way, you feel the middles find it difficult to separate politics from food. How much o that is just fun, and howhow much of it do people get really angry about? It's often quite heartbreaking to see that it's our food and that it's not their food, and vice versa. The story of the food is often interwoven into the other stories. So there is never a clear cut answer. And it's always not always desirable to separate.
Samira Ahmed speaks to the chef Yotam Ottolenghi about his life and career, from discovering his love of food in Jerusalem to his professional partnership with Palestinian chef Sami Tamimi, plus how he creates his well-loved cookbooks such as Simple and Flavour.
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