You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
In more day-to-day restaurants, things have undergone a seismic change towards informality and sharing, which has been years in the making. Nowadays,… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
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… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
