Ferran Adria Quotes

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• Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

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  Tables, Hours

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• Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

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  Funny, Food, Lobster

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• Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

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  Dream, Opportunity, Artist

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

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  Thinking, Impossible, Virtue

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• You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

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  Needs, Tomatoes, Knows

  "This column will change your life: mise en place" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.

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• I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

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  Cooking, Kitchen, Pathways

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• Creativity means not copying.

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  Creativity, Mean, Copying

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• If you think well, you cook well.

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  Thinking, Cooking, Cooks

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• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

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  Risk, Would Be, Percent

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

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  Cooking, Cuisine

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• Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.

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  Believe, Differences, People

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

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  Hate, Simple, Luxury

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• You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

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  Country, Cuisine, Study

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• You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

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  Cooking, Vanguard, Polemics

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• What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

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  Should Have, Eating, Moments

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• Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

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  Appreciate, Kitchen, Want

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• We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.

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  Preparation, Dishes

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• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

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  Worry, Can't Change, I Can

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• Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

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  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

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  Innovation, Avant Garde, Polemics

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• When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry and physics are science, but the scientific method is something else.... It's the science that the world of cooking generates: science of butter; science of the croissant.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.

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  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

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  Basketball, Home, Thinking

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• I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.

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  Mother, Cooking, Cooks

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• In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

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  Copying, Done, Chef

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