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
expression cooking avant-garde
The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
discipline cooking kitchen
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.
transforming
What's wrong with transforming food?
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.
creativity mean copying
Creativity means not copying.
thinking ideas people
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.
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.
basketball home thinking
People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.
innovation avant-garde polemics
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
preparation dishes
We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.
information
There's so much information that there is disinformation.
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.
country cuisine study
You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.
mother childhood normal
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.