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I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.
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Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack.
Jose Andres
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After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.
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Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.
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American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.
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Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.
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I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.
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Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.
Jose Andres
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When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.
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I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
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Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
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Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.
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Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.
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Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
Jose Andres
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As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.
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Our brain, our body, craves fat. We cannot help it. That's why a kid will eat a hot dog quicker than a piece of broccoli.
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Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.
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I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.
Jose Andres -
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
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The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.
Jose Andres
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If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.
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I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did.
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Vegas is a celebration.
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Everyting starts to happen at my home at 7 A. M., 7:20, when you hear the orange juicer. That means my daughters are already making the fresh Clementine juice.
Jose Andres