Quotes by Ferran Adria

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

— Ferran Adria

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

— Ferran Adria

Happiness

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

Wisdom

I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

— Ferran Adria

Hope

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

— Ferran Adria

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?

— Ferran Adria

Success

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

— Ferran Adria

Wisdom

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

— Ferran Adria

Wisdom

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

— Ferran Adria

Success

I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

— Ferran Adria

Wisdom

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

— Ferran Adria

Truth

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

Wisdom

Just to eat is a gift.

— Ferran Adria

Wisdom

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

Life

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

Happiness

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

Success

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

Wisdom

Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.

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Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

Wisdom