Quotes from Jose Andres

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 always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

America gave me the opportunity to open successful restaurants, start a TV show, and write books. I can even fill an auditorium when I give a speech, which in America is rare for a chef.

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.

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.

In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu.

I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.

Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today.

I mix mayonnaise, ketchup and brandy and a little bit of mustard. This is a heck of a good sauce for seafood.

Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.

People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.

I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

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.

American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.

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 first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?

People travel north from Barcelona, not south.