Top 156 Quotes & Sayings by Jose Andres - Page 3

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

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?

I get bored of vacation.

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

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.

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 work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.

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.

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

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.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

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.

All my life, I've had restaurants that were affordable.

To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

I get very upset when people start adding weird things to romesco.

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 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.

For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.

Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips.

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.

If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.

Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.

For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

Americans should be receiving one plate a day of hot food. That's not too much to ask in America. An MRE is very expensive for the American taxpayer. A hot meal is more affordable, it's cheaper. It's what people really need, it's what people really want. They feel all of a sudden that you are caring for them, that America is caring for them.

Look at our farmers markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.