Jose Andres Quotes
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Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today.
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Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.
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Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?
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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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I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.
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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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I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.
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I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.
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Recipes are overrated.
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I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken.
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The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.
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Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.
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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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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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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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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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My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres.
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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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When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.
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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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For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
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America gave me the opportunity to open successful restaurants, start a TV show, and write books. I can even fill an auditorium when I give a speech, which in America is rare for a chef.
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Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips.
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Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.