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Ferran Adria
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Ferran Adria
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 14
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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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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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The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
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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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El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.
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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 think my virtue was I never thought This is impossible.
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When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.
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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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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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If you think well, you cook well.
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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 don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
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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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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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In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.
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When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.
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