- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
- Customer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Idol
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't worry about the things I can't change.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cuisines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
- Fresh
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just to eat is a gift.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020