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Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
Ferran Adria
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Ferran Adria
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 14
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Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.
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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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When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.
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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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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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We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?
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I think my virtue was I never thought This is impossible.
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We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.
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My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.
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I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
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We opened El Bulli there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.
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I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.
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We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.
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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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I cant live without activity I cant be sedentary.
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I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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