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Chef Ferran Adria of El Bulli

Ferran Adria on why the knife is the most essential tool in your kitchen.

Released on 11/25/2008

Transcript

(lively music)

(speaking Catalan)

A humble, simple knife. It's an astonishing technology.

(speaking Catalan)

When we speak about technology,

it seems that we have to be using very strange

and weird high-tech equipment.

A knife is also technology.

It seems lately everyone is talking,

and the evolution of cooking, during the last years,

is only things to the new high-tech tools or utensils.

He thinks this is a lie.

(Speaking Catalan)

Microwave, or the steam ovens,

they are already very old.

They were more complex than many of the utensils

and tools showing up today in the kitchens around the world.

Most important is that food is an experience.

You know, the total luxury, is to eat

what you feel at any particular moment.

Starring: Ferran Adria