I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America.
— Jose Andres
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.
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.
The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.
Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?
Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.
I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.
The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.
Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.
I get very upset when people start adding weird things to romesco.
I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.
Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.
Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.
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?
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.
When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.
Recipes are overrated.
I'm very happy with how Jaleo in Las Vegas came together.
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.
I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need.
As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.
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.
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.
When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.
For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy.
All my life, I've had restaurants that were affordable.
Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.
Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack.
Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips.
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.
A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.
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.
I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
I get bored of vacation.
As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.
Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink.
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant.
My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.
For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.
To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.
I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.
I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.
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.
