Ferran Adria
Ferran Adria
Ferran Adrià i Acostais a Spanish chef born on May 14, 1962 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He was the head chef of the elBulli restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava and is considered one of the best chefs in the world...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth14 March 1962
CountrySpain
food sardines lobster
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
tables hours
Food is about being happy -- at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours...
chocolate littles treats
There's a little treat I like a lot called Bollycao. It's like a brioche with chocolate inside, but industrial.
thrill restaurants enjoyment
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
cant activity sedentary
I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.
risk would-be percent
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
dream artist opportunity
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.
cooking limits ifs
If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit.... What are the limits?
cooking vanguard polemics
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.
should-have moments eating
What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.
needs tomatoes knows
You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.
cooking kitchen use
I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
stars thinking people
People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?
food agriculture example
There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.