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

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  Thinking, Impossible, Virtue

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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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• 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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• Creativity means not copying.

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  Creativity, Mean, Copying

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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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• If you think well, you cook well.

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  Thinking, Cooking, Cooks

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

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  Pressure, Function, Ifs

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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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• 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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• I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.

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  Activity, Sedentary, Cant

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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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• The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.

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  Emotional, Talking, Play

  "World's top chefs talk cuisine, creativity in Chicago". Interview with Mark Caro, www.chicagotribune.com. March 20, 2014.

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