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" In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy. "

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" My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres. "

" Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms. "

" Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. "

" Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated. "

" Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips. "

" Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink. "

" People travel north from Barcelona, not south. "

" Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor. "

" Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen. "

" Anchovies pair really well with fruit like a nectarines or clementine. The fruit complements the sweetness and saltiness of the anchovy. "

" As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas. "

" People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers. "

" The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom. "

" Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack. "

" With their bright color and fantastic balance of acidity and sweetness, tomatoes are a natural refresher and the perfect element for meals on warm and sultry days. "

" In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame. "

" Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help. "

" I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did. "

" If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning. "

" I get very upset when people start adding weird things to romesco. "

" Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way. "

" To feed a nation is never easy! "

" IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions. "

" Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap. "

" When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs. "

" I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show. "

" I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen? "

" The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow. "

" Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition. "

" Meat, to me, it's slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they're gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point. "