Top 96 Adria Quotes
#1. But Alexandra Petrovic did not become the most powerful politician in Adria by taking no for an answer.
"You seem to think that I'm asking, Ms Blakely. Which I'm not."
I stop and turn. "And you seem to think that you scare me, Ms Petrovic. Which you don't.
Ally Carter
#2. She knew that what made Sr. Adria decide had been the delicate way she had taken the book that he handed her by surprise: she took it delicately, almost lovingly, just as Elisa picked up the embroidery box when she found out about the death of her lover in Elisa Grant by Ballys (Pittsburg, 1883).
Jaume Cabre
#3. I was completely into Isaac Mayfair. Everything just felt right, like it was meant to be. Whatever "it" was. ~Adria
J.A. Redmerski
#4. I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes. - Adria
J.A. Redmerski
#5. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.
Jose Andres
#6. For example, Adria came home from nursery school one day with a picture she was excited to show off. She immediately interrupted something important her mother was doing and wanted her mom to celebrate her picture with her. Another time, her mother might
Carol Tuttle
#7. It's Adria's face I see when I think of home.
Nalini Singh
#8. Heart of my heart, that's who you are, Adria Morgan. Chosen and forever." Picking her hand off his cheek, he pressed a lingering kiss to the palm before placing it over the strong, steady rhythm of that very organ. "Wolf and man, you own every part of me.
Nalini Singh
#9. 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.
Ferran Adria
#10. You can do this, Adria. Don't wolf-out on me, especially not in my lap, alright? These are my favorite jeans.
J.A. Redmerski
#12. There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria
#13. 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.
Ferran Adria
#14. You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.
Ferran Adria
#15. I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.
Adria Petty
#16. If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit ... What are the limits?
Ferran Adria
#17. 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?
Ferran Adria
#18. If I don't have pressure, I don't function.
Ferran Adria
#19. 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.
Ferran Adria
#20. With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it ... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
Adria Arjona
#21. If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
Ferran Adria
#22. There's so much information that there is disinformation.
Ferran Adria
#23. People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.
Ferran Adria
#24. My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
Adria Arjona
#25. 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.
Ferran Adria
#27. I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.
Ferran Adria
#28. My best friend is the one person I lean on when my world comes crashing down before my eyes.
Adria Wade
#29. 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.
Ferran Adria
#30. 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.
Ferran Adria
#31. 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
#32. We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
Ferran Adria
#33. I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts
these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.
Ferran Adria
#34. You would have been better off if you admitted to yourself that she was the love of your life. It might have saved us some pain.
Adria J. Cimino
#35. Wait, it's going to fall," I say, pointing to the banner. "Pull it tighter-there, yeah, see how loose it is?"
"A little to the left" Isaac mocks me, grinning. "A little to the right?"
I stick my tongue out at him.
"Better be careful with that thing," he jokes.
J.A. Redmerski
#36. 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.
Ferran Adria
#37. There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.
Ferran Adria
#38. I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
Ferran Adria
#39. 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.
Ferran Adria
#40. 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.
Ferran Adria
#41. What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.
Ferran Adria
#42. Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
Ferran Adria
#43. The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
Ferran Adria
#44. When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.
Ferran Adria
#45. Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.
Ferran Adria
#46. I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
Ferran Adria
#47. 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.
Ferran Adria
#48. You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.
Adria Arjona
#49. I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.
Adria Petty
#50. I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
Ferran Adria
#51. There's a little treat I like a lot called Bollycao. It's like a brioche with chocolate inside, but industrial.
Ferran Adria
#52. I don't worry about the things I can't change.
Ferran Adria
#53. Could you imagine people eating a painting
if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.
Ferran Adria
#54. 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.
Ferran Adria
#55. 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.
Ferran Adria
#56. Because a storm is coming and I need to be prepared before it gets here.
J.A. Redmerski
#57. You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.
Ferran Adria
#58. There is no reason for verbosity in the olfactory world. Less is more.
Adria J. Cimino
#59. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
Ferran Adria
#60. 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.
Ferran Adria
#61. 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.
Ferran Adria
#62. My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.
Adria Arjona
#63. I think my virtue was I never thought This is impossible.
Ferran Adria
#64. Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.
Ferran Adria
#65. 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
#66. Life is mundane without the new and unexpected. I guess that has been and continues to be my downfall ... I'm constantly searching ...
Adria J. Cimino
#67. In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
Ferran Adria
#69. Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
Ferran Adria
#70. I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.
Adria Petty
#71. Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Ferran Adria
#72. When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
Ferran Adria
#73. I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
Ferran Adria
#74. Food is about being happy
at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours ...
Ferran Adria
#75. My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.
Adria Petty
#76. 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.
Ferran Adria
#77. But why are you giving this to me if you don't believe?"
"Because I know that you do.
Adria J. Cimino
#78. Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.
Adria Petty
#79. In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.
Ferran Adria
#80. 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.
Ferran Adria
#81. Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.
Ferran Adria
#82. Borrowing a hammer from Walker Lauren, she pounded the tickets into the office door with a nail. Hawke, passing by, helpfully held the tickets in place while she hammered the nail. He didn't say a word, his expression so bland it was clear he was highly amused.
Nalini Singh
#83. 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.
Ferran Adria
#84. I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
Adria Arjona
#86. I'm a good observer. And I have enough experience with unfulfilling relationships ... I can recognize them a mile away.
Adria J. Cimino
#87. I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
Ferran Adria
#88. 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 since I started cooking.
Ferran Adria
#89. I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.
Ferran Adria
#90. Sometimes I'd have breakfast in Guatemala and go to sleep in Mexico.
Adria Arjona
#91. 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.
Ferran Adria
#92. I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
Ferran Adria
#93. We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.
Ferran Adria
#94. When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.
Ferran Adria
#96. Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria
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