Jose Andres Puerta Quotes

Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic.

When you use a simple gelatin like collagen, you can get flavor that is 100 percent pure, maybe event 150 percent.

There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot.

I can't imagine Japanese food without dashi, a broth made with kelp and dried bonito flakes. It has the aroma of the sea, tinged with a subtle smokiness, and adds a very important, distinct flavor.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

I usually bring along a bottle of kombucha, thinking, 'This will be really good for me.' But I never actually drink it. The fermented mushroom-y flavor is too intense for me.

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

There's nothing like the smell of grilling flesh.

Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

I love the liver kick.

If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.

Trying mirchi vada was like an achievement for me as it's too spicy!

The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.