Ever since the \u201cTavole Accademiche\u201d project was presented, one of the most anticipated chefs to visist the University has been Ferran Adri\u00e0. Some of his dishes are being featured on the cafeteria menu for the next 5 days and today he spoke to a room full of students eager to listen.<\/p>\n
Adri\u00e0 gave a little bit of background on his carrer. He started from nothing, not even being interested in cooking itself, eventually becoming the head Chef at \u201cEl Bulli\u201d in his early twenties. At the restaurant the purpose of cooking was to go beyond what is and discover creativity, defy limits, make mistakes and above all answer the \u201cwhy?\u201d of everything.<\/p>\n
All of the 1846 dishes revealed at El Bulli where conceived with this vision, \u201cAlways ask why!\u201d Adri\u00e0 would emphasize strongly. The restaurant was a channel for a paradigm shift, in 1998 it was the first place to share their recipes; \u201cThe mision was creativity, once it\u2019s donce, that\u2019s it!\u201d then the team would keep moving forward with passion, taking risks, creating controversy and always maintaining a strong mental attitude to overcome criticism.<\/p>\n
Finally revealing his secret for success: \u201cWe were searching for happiness, not success itself, the awards came later as a consequence of our passion.\u201d He also explained the reasons why ultimately he decided to close the restaurant: All success has an expiration date, the booking situation wasn\u2019t pretty, the organization of the kitchen and service became horribly perfect to the point of being boring and the most important motivation was to give a gift to all his employees, to give them time to reflect and understand all of the work they had done over the years, and understand what cooking truly means. Closing the restaurant he also made way to El Bulli Foundation, the next step.<\/p>\n
From this topic Adri\u00e0 gave a small lesson on questions he asked himself and took years to understand, all on cooking, the origins of life, art, the evolution of the culinary process. Spoke about issues like the separation of the cook and the diner and the importance of the latter in the cooking experience. Giving a plethora of examples and explaining that to be able to answer these questions \u201cone must go back to being a kid, back to the start in order to create\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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