“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.”
“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?”
“Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.”
“If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.”
“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 making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.”
“I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.”
“I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.”
“I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.”
“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.”