Ferran Adria Food Quotes & Sayings

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process. — Ferran Adria

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. — Ferran Adria

The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play ... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs. — Ferran Adria

What's wrong with transforming food? — Ferran Adria

There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now. — Ferran Adria

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food. — Ferran Adria

In more day-to-day restaurants, things have undergone a seismic change towards informality and sharing, which has been years in the making. Nowadays, people don't want just one dish; they want to order lots of things and they want to do it in fun places, places that give them an experience. The experience that a restaurant needs to offer is no longer just based around the food. — Ferran Adria

Ferran Adria making hamburgers ... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food. — Ferran Adria

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time. — Ferran Adria

Food is about being happy
at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours ... — Ferran Adria

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express. — Ferran Adria

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

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives. — Ferran Adria

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. — Ferran Adria

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt. — Ferran Adria

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food. — Ferran Adria

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

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

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria