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Ferran Adrià Acosta (born May 14, 1962) (Catalan pronunciation: [fəˈran əðɾiˈa]) is a Spanish chef from Catalonia. He was the head chef of the elBulli restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava and is considered one of the best chefs in the world.

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

Basketball, Cuisine, Home, Jordan, Think, Thinking

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.

Came, Recipes, Secret, Unthinkable

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.

Dish, Experience, Fun, Order, Years

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.

Agriculture, Discovered, Eating Right, Food, Tastes, Thought

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

Country, Cuisine, Study, Understand

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.

Double, Eat, Enjoyment, Restaurants, Thrill

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.

Connected, Designer, Dining, Food, Linked, Moving

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

Customers, Design, Dishes, Receives, Same, Time

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.

Art, Cinema, Crazy, Jobs, Photography, Point

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Entire, Knows, Life, Needs, Tomatoes

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

Avant Garde, Cooking, Difference, Differences, Experience

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.

Big, Games, Like, People, Piece, Pieces

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

Function, Ifs, Pressure

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.

Creativity, Jobs, Notebook, Practically, Tool, Type

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.

Creative, Creativity, Knowledge, Multimillionaires, People

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

Avant Garde, Cooking, Degustation, Expression, Menu

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.

Idols, Johann, Like, Player, Quickly, Soccer

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

Cook, Cooking, Cooks, Mother, Professional

There's so much information that there is disinformation.

Disinformation, Information

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

Blue, Dishes, Languages, Sky, Thinking

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