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

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" After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are. "

" My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base. "

" 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. "

" Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen? "

" For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world. "

" Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset. "

" Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school. "

" A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef. "

" I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken. "

" To feed a nation is never easy! "

" 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. "

" Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star. "

" 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. "

" Let me ask you: Who do you prefer, a clown organizing your menu - with all due respect to Mr. McDonald - or a chef? I do believe it's a very simple answer. "

" The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering. "

" When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes. "

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

" I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves. "

" I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities. "

" The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters. "

" I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires. "

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

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

" As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza. "

" Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world. "

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

" The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. "

" If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family. "