Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple. "
Ferran Adria
I Am
Own
Ferrari
Related Quotes:
" I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. "
Ferran Adria
Always
Writing
Read
" 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. "
Ferran Adria
Job
Working
Vacation
" 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. "
Ferran Adria
Good
Restaurant
New
" Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. "
Ferran Adria
Polemic
Innovation
Being
" It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed. "
Ferran Adria
You
Your
Discipline
" 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. "
Ferran Adria
Like
Why
Taste
" When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food. "
Ferran Adria
Ill
Enjoy
Food
" I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary. "
Ferran Adria
Sedentary
Live
Without
" I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental. "
Ferran Adria
Being
Chef
Dreamed
" Just to eat is a gift. "
Ferran Adria
Gift
Just
Eat
" In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu. "
Ferran Adria
Restaurant
Change
Need
" I believe that if you eat well, you work even better. "
Ferran Adria
I Believe
You
Work
" If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage. "
Ferran Adria
Like
Blood
Hate
" I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue. "
Ferran Adria
Food
Taste
Tongue
" Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food. "
Ferran Adria
Food
Sky
I Think
" I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi. "
Ferran Adria
Taxi
Truth Is
Truth
" 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. "
Ferran Adria
Food
Human
Living
" I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky. "
Ferran Adria
Need
Day
Dream
" Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. "
Ferran Adria
Percent
Time
Something
" 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. "
Ferran Adria
Friends
Feet
You
" We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food. "
Ferran Adria
You
Food
Attention
" I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. "
Ferran Adria
More
Creativity
Kitchen
" I don't worry about the things I can't change. "
Ferran Adria
Things
Worry
About
" 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. "
Ferran Adria
People
Care
Feel