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
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.
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.
art mean thinking
We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.
thinking sky blue
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
thinking cooking wells
If you think well, you cook well.
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?
thinking impossible virtue
I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.
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.
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.
attention business food meals paying
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
regional though
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
believe work
I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.