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
child children connection cook cooking early food involved life normal plays rest sports
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
differences cooking avant-garde
In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
mother cooking cooks
I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.
cooking recipes may
You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.
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.
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.
cooking kitchen use
I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
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 cuisine
There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.
thinking cooking wells
If you think well, you cook well.
appreciate beings enjoy experts food higher human level living monkeys
Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
arrive ask everybody goes home people whether
When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
written
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.