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

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Ferran Adria
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 14
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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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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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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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Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
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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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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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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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You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.
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In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
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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 use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
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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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We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.
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At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is What is art today? The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art.
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I cant live without activity I cant be sedentary.
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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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