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" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

" I don't worry about the things I can't change. "

" 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. "

" I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary. "

" I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi. "

" 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. "

" Just to eat is a gift. "

" 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

Creativity

Kitchen

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. "

" When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food. "

" I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. "

" Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. "

" Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food. "

" 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

Why

Taste

" I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental. "

" 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. "

" I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food. "

" 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. "

" 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

Blood

Hate

" I believe that if you eat well, you work even better. "

" We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food. "