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" 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. "

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" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Just to eat is a gift. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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Hate

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

" 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

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Kitchen

" 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. "

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

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