Adria Quotes

People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating? ~ Ferran Adria

I don't worry about the things I can't change. ~ Ferran Adria

I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite. ~ Ferran Adria

As a kid, I wasn't given the sense that celebrity, or fame, or any of that, was something to be impressed by, or to seek out. It was always impressed upon me that making something well crafted, something respected, was the most important thing to do with your life, and I've tried to do that where I can in my field. ~ Adria Petty

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

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

Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it. ~ Adria Petty

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

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion. ~ Adria Petty

Our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of the shamers had themselves come from a place of shame, and it really felt parochial and self-defeating to instinctively slap shame onto shame like a clumsy builder covering cracks. ~ Jon Ronson

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 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

When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes. ~ Ferran Adria

There is no reason for verbosity in the olfactory world. Less is more. ~ Adria J. Cimino

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit ... What are the limits? ~ Ferran Adria

When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry and physics are science, but the scientific method is something else ... It's the science that the world of cooking generates: science of butter; science of the croissant. ~ Ferran Adria

I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary. ~ Ferran Adria

What's wrong with transforming food? ~ Ferran Adria

You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their money and creative people to share their creativity. Whoever doesn't share their wealth, be it knowledge, money, or creativity, will be dead. ~ Ferran Adria

There's so much information that there is disinformation. ~ Ferran Adria

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. ~ Ferran Adria

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. ~ Ferran Adria

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses. ~ Ferran Adria

We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical. ~ Ferran Adria

Heart of my heart, that's who you are, Adria Morgan. Chosen and forever." Picking her hand off his cheek, he pressed a lingering kiss to the palm before placing it over the strong, steady rhythm of that very organ. "Wolf and man, you own every part of me. ~ Nalini Singh

For example, Adria came home from nursery school one day with a picture she was excited to show off. She immediately interrupted something important her mother was doing and wanted her mom to celebrate her picture with her. Another time, her mother might ~ Carol Tuttle

Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines. ~ Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi. ~ Ferran Adria

Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them. ~ Adria Petty

You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature. ~ Adria Arjona

My best friend is the one person I lean on when my world comes crashing down before my eyes. ~ Adria Wade

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. ~ Ferran Adria

You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing. ~ Ferran Adria

Just to eat is a gift. ~ Ferran Adria

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

There's a little treat I like a lot called Bollycao. It's like a brioche with chocolate inside, but industrial. ~ Ferran Adria

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

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy. ~ Ferran Adria

Borrowing a hammer from Walker Lauren, she pounded the tickets into the office door with a nail. Hawke, passing by, helpfully held the tickets in place while she hammered the nail. He didn't say a word, his expression so bland it was clear he was highly amused. ~ Nalini Singh

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

Because a storm is coming and I need to be prepared before it gets here. ~ J.A. Redmerski

We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then. ~ 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

El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind. ~ Ferran Adria

At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art. ~ Ferran Adria

We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think? ~ Ferran Adria

I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts
these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it. ~ Ferran Adria

Could you imagine people eating a painting
if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so. ~ Ferran Adria

Sometimes I'd have breakfast in Guatemala and go to sleep in Mexico. ~ Adria Arjona

I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook. ~ 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

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

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. ~ Ferran Adria

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

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

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking. ~ Ferran Adria

She knew that what made Sr. Adria decide had been the delicate way she had taken the book that he handed her by surprise: she took it delicately, almost lovingly, just as Elisa picked up the embroidery box when she found out about the death of her lover in Elisa Grant by Ballys (Pittsburg, 1883). ~ Jaume Cabre

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. ~ Ferran Adria

My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it. ~ Ferran Adria

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it ... it's like you're filming a theater piece. ~ Adria Arjona

I was completely into Isaac Mayfair. Everything just felt right, like it was meant to be. Whatever "it" was. ~Adria ~ J.A. Redmerski

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

When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph. ~ Ferran Adria

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes. ~ Ferran Adria

I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental. ~ Ferran Adria

People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan. ~ Ferran Adria

If you think well, you cook well. ~ 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

I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes. - Adria ~ J.A. Redmerski

I believe that if you eat well, you work even better. ~ Ferran Adria

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. ~ Adria Petty