Zitat des Tages von 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.
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.
I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
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.
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.
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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.
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.
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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.
If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
I don't worry about the things I can't change.
