Jose Andres Quotes
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When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?
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I think when dishes have a certain amount of acidity, really they are very alive. And I love things that are alive.
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The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.
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Everyone should wake up and have a fresh-squeezed orange every day. By having a fresh glass of orange juice with American oranges, you are supporting the local economy, you have all the vitamin C you need in a day, and you support the environment because you don't use any plastic from bottles or bags.
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We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.
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Recipes are overrated.
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For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
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As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.
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Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.
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Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant.
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I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.
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The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.
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I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
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Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.
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Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.
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When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.
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The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.
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Dorado Beach's rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that shaped this unique destination and to push me to share some of my own stories.
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Let me ask you: Who do you prefer, a clown organizing your menu - with all due respect to Mr. McDonald - or a chef? I do believe it's a very simple answer.
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We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.
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Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.
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For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
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One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity.
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As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.