Ferran Adria Quotes

I hate olives. They're so nasty. I hate everything about olives. Mushrooms, too.

There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.

I'm going to be a very bad Portuguese right now - I'm actually not a fan of pastel de natas. I'm just not a fan of cream.

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

I am not a fish fanatic unless it is made in a certain way. Most of the time, my parents and I would eat very light vegetarian food.

One food I've tried and I haven't grown at all to like - foie gras, I don't like it. I just don't. I've tried it several different ways, and I think it's a texture thing for me.

I'm not a great meat eater - I eat it twice a week. But I can't stand fish - my mother says it's because I got a fish bone stuck in my throat when I was little.

I really dislike soup, especially pumpkin soup.

I don't believe I dislike any ingredient.

How can I tell if I was born hating coconut or developed a hatred of coconut because my father distrusted it as an ingredient?

Let me clear something up: I don't like KFC. Or McDonald's.

I do quite like rice and beans weirdly, I don't know how or why. For me I always eat my beans first one by one and then savour the rice because it is bloody fantastic.

I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.

I don't think I've actually ever had cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. I've had the Steak Diane. I don't like cheesecake!

I don't think I can eat emu.

I eat like a pig. Tripe is the only thing I won't eat.

Milk Duds and Hot Tamales are what I love.

I want everyone to eat whatever makes them happy.

I don't know what would happen to me if I ate a bacon sandwich, but I'm just not interested.

The only thing I won't eat is swede - I can't bear it.

I don't like kale, so I don't eat it.

Yes, scrambled eggs are lovely, and I've eaten them, and enjoyed them, and that was OK. Now I don't want to any more, and that's OK too.

On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I'm becoming a stereotype, but it's what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!