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
dish given
If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
job washing
I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
beef bell goes mix soy
Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.
regional though
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
aspects fascinated food perfect plus
Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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...
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?
secret recipes unthinkable
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.
dining excited proposal
When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.
transforming
What's wrong with transforming food?
expression cooking avant-garde
The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
photography art jobs
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.
humble careers feet
Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.