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Ants don't taste like lemon grass and ginger. Lemon grass and ginger taste like ants!
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The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.
Alex Atala
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The best way to be global is to be local.
Alex Atala -
The difference between being good, very good and exceptional as a cook is in having the flavours in your memory.
Alex Atala -
I couldn't cook French food as well as a French chef, or Italian like an Italian cook. But I also came to understand none of them could cook Brazilian food as well as me.
Alex Atala -
I had never tasted salmon. Truffles, foie gras, caviar, I didn't like. It was the same emotion as coming as a kid to Amazonas to fish and hunt with my grandfather and father. I didn't enjoy some of the flavours and textures. They were just too strange.
Alex Atala -
I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.
Alex Atala -
ATÁ is not an institute for chefs or for recipes or for food or for foodies. This is an institute for change... we can be an important support, for local culture, for social benefits, for economic benefits, not only money. We don't change lives, we change communities.
Alex Atala
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I am famous in my little food world, one of the top 50 chefs, but I don't want to look back in 10 years and think that I didn't use my voice.
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If I tell you mozzarella tastes of Italy and miso speaks of Japan, then tucupi [fermented manioc juice] and ants are the taste of Brazil
Alex Atala