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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.
Ferran Adria
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Ferran Adria
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 14
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In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
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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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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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We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.
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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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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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If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?
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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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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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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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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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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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Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.
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I think my virtue was I never thought This is impossible.
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I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
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Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.
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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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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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You may say, Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe. But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.
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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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