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" 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. "

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" I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience. "

Jose Andres

Age

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Life

" As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup. "

Jose Andres

Children

Chef

" Italians allow anything in their cooking. "

" 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. "

" Tapas is a celebration of life. "

Jose Andres

Celebration

Life

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" All my life, I've had restaurants that were affordable. "

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

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

" In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes for plum next time you make a tomato dish. "

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

" Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man. "

" Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant. "

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

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

" In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud. "

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

" Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally. "

Jose Andres

Always

Cooking

" As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities. "

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

Jose Andres

Television

Work

" For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets. "

" Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration. "

Jose Andres

My Life

Friend

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

" Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept. "

" Eating has to be fun. "

Jose Andres

Fun

Eating