Be Afraid
MAD4, Albert Adria, February 23, 2015
Albert Adrià spent 23 years at elBulli, working pastry and overseeing innovation at the restaurant’s test kitchen. He left elBulli in 2008 and now has a growing stable of acclaimed restaurants in Barcelona, including Tickets and Pakta.
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I'm very very likely I'm really lucky David present me Lisa Lynn award and you are here battle film is mis palabras no this is not very good and sorry but poor enemy yeah more well name when Renee called me and invited me to come yo no se hace el miedo Renee said I remember one time when you talked about fear do you know Mikado tanto pero yo se que esto momento y ahora tengo miedo he said I don't really remember that but I can tell you at this very moment I've got a lot of fears miedo poor Sarah it was demo I'm afraid I've been the last one to speak today neither born habla English I'm afraid because I don't speak English Mira pornography nah yo me siento seguro cuando casino no cuando hablo I'm afraid because I'm not cooking in front of you I only feel safe when I'm cooking not when I'm talking me the porno said that you got in soccer they don't give a [ __ ] I'm afraid that you may not get the message that I'm trying to communicate to you you know poor mr. Esparza foolish but I'm especially afraid of these really awful blue pants that I'm wearing vn levanta la mano Las Colinas well the young people in this audience raised their hands to nor Escobedo yahwah dosia sake aprendiendo I've been here two days learning e quinceanera solo and so what am I going to teach you now what good lady veto because I've lived it ghetto in Sinhala afternoon amigo I want to teach you all to be afraid Noongar Nadia's my team I said oh my god you are never too old or to be afraid vamos a ver life is young de miedo I'm going to say this is the definition of fear a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger or a feeling of disquiet or apprehension means F in film de miedo I'm gonna add my own definition of fear creative engine mode or crea Devo cuando su Paris el miedo yo Dominus Hilo transformice en un Elemento considers to sueños but when you overcome your fear and when you transform it into a creative element you get your dreams por todo el mundo tiene que habían forget the energy creating Sonia for that you don't have to be young you just have to believe in your dreams sabes que yo era una de las Primera's personas que pagar emporia thank Athena you know that I was one of the first people who earn a living creating in a kitchen yes you can say : and I am and I am young solo tango quadrant I quadrant I'm only 44 tan and Anderson sto physio I've been doing this for 30 years better still you evil but I'm still alive yeah every day but a vamos a ver means me a nose so we're going to see we're gonna take a look at my fears what in the you know 41 my favorite restaurant after Louie they won't censor any of those meal until we Sierra in in in June June of 2011 l Bui closed an open man my first cocktail bar is not a restaurant I'm fear to make a reason for compared to El Bulli and I'm a chemist I make a mistake you when you are mistakes you learn open a cocktail bar so I'm afraid of doing a bad copy of elby's food I'm afraid of not being up to par with the cocktails I'm afraid of not explaining the concepts wow I never knew Kalos League a and I'm afraid of not knowing how to develop the project but not the last two it not to buy me another proyecto actually no I didn't have I wasn't afraid of developing the project the EO Thomas is disposable low times for me enough regala and eight months after I opened that restaurant I turned it into something totally freaky it's only 16 people 41 courses in 202 hours 20 minutes mix together cocktails and finger food this I can see is not easy a start but people talk to the mini Bowie I know mine of course is mini Bowie but the weight I have him mes para era muy muy pasado so I was carrying this very heavy burden on my back because of El boys reputation paramos they'd all go you gravely but it's true that they date by the day that we close that restaurant it was something incredible it's not Hollow but it's close spoken poco de comida para Gary is those different distillers forgotten a salami referencia del bode entonces starikov es la capacidad de Villa de que podemos tener in miss McGuffin elephant SST loss so I'm gonna show you some examples of what we were doing because I know here I know that all of you the only pictures you have in your mind or a bell buoy and I want you to see how one chef can cook in many different styles in no silverware we didn't use any silverware oh you ate everything all 41 courses with your hands it says like a few nuggets you know Dominus la técnica genus problemas so with this kind of of cooking with this kind of cuisine if you don't have really good technique you're gonna have some issues 3 means 3 months before open after sri srimad after 41 they are 10 meters 5 meters the open kitchen kitchen tickets tickets under the names kitchen that has many more rice sorry one name but easier to remember teeka Stingo miedo mucho miedo tickets with tickets I was really afraid estamos in Punta Punta Sur our GUI was just about to close mi premier purgatorial meant a personal it was my first really personal project we I was the pastry chef and that's what people knew me as para casi todos letterman all day and for just about everybody else I was the brother of him wasn't me and at the same time there were tons of expectations that were about me local mafia tener miedo which made me only more afraid not have that concept oh I was afraid of people not getting the concept birthday which I really didn't do a la capacidad de super disseminate o e en dos semanas de la senda logorrhea but I had the ability to overcome this fear and those expectations and within two weeks after we opened give people what they wanted elegant agreeably the barrio what do you do barrio what people wanted was a sort of neighborhood version of a lui so we gave them a neighbourhood version of El we and it was wind areas it's a real Cuarenta you know an assist a yen dinner a local path Achatz and so in these last 20 days I've closed 41 degrees and and e-tickets case more of you guys now and so yeah tickets has taken oh no no no tomorrow open tomorrow in these moments is making mine us and I'm here this is very funny but this example the facet learn the things now this is a tomato tartare I make only six month tomatillo Totten I think in the restaurant but now I will efficiently and out typical or traditional place in Spain you go I know how many reasons you can minimize a casino la comida evolution Ando our somos circle coriander calories this so the kitchen there has changed over time now we've got about 40 people working in it and they make the past three I'm passive remember I make the past seem 41 now I have the bottom the most beautiful passe in Barcelona okay well no content Oh container meadow I wasn't content just to be a bit afraid every 100 ponies so I opened Peruvian Japanese Nikkei restaurant scene on croissant a Pernod Sabonis but what am i doing opening a Japanese Peruvian restaurant cuando no silicon Tina Niki McKay realmente Brenda emocionado de esta cosa no no but when I got to know Nikkei cuisine I was really moved by it excited by it gray and ostrich Holiness I believed in two young Chefs infidel siempre more scary though a la gente joven yo creo lost revenues we've always believed in young Chefs and I continue the the young are not the future they're the present Nadia no valid Oh con con con a konami la pasion two volleys para cualquier cosa i've never encountered someone who wasn't worthy if you have humility and passion you're worthy of date in the kitchen me jefe de cocina in tickets yes 23 my party impactor he has 24 my pollen in next week in the mexican he has 26 and in this case had not fear for example I don't like the make a mini devastation in impact on oh I don't like make that I needed I remember always a with rubbish on say la Fujian tiene que salir para la vie fusion in all the confusion Fusion has to serve to diffuse and not confuse looking at them with no confirm deal and that was our project not to confuse things Sunday Percy oh so shallow Tarantino see yes it's a beautiful restaurant with 32 seats you seen do anavar muchas all agree yes and without a doubt it's brought us a lot of joy no para que se hace una hora es otro ticket with rope ACTA this - this restaurant - has continued to grow in to change over time the restaurant of today is not the the lopaka that we opened all right this is a ceviche of course David under a topic was a movie about Jesus that I don't really know what this is either I don't remember there's a lot of plate well no happy - this in July 3 month after but open the place I like open but I'm fear yo abro el sitio trailer al but I dared to do with open a traditional place Mafia pasado TV no yumiya Villar valle de la tradición para in the interest career LEvolution I had spent my entire life saying that I was holding on to the bar of tradition to support me as I reached out for innovation yeah - and now I had my tradition yes on they must relief sorry and that's where I'm happiest para given any friends here the concept don't know a 41 is 7 person before this tourist and this is only 2020 a stone poco not Oasis told me does not get any debris debris la bodega no criminal Clinton oh come over the repent a possibly do now awaken CDO tranquilo que es una bodega most photos flicker you're in not say and das das como que su noir ask you no no sorry under the earth so here of my fears about this traditional place bodega first of all how was I going to explain it to foreigners what the hell is Spanish bodega was they weren't ever going to understand it I'm fear really that they broke know the concepts were broken got a chocolate echoed the concept Oh send the ticket what I got I saw I was really afraid that that these since the restaurants were so physically close to each other that there would be this kind of shock between tickets the modern the innovative and bodega that traditional now like a que tengo miedo primero ste pasando MRT yeah I was really afraid but I'm also having a great time with it ah look at that si por aqui estamos haciendo siento center fin de cinta personas so this restaurant we're doing about a hundred and sixty covers a night yes uh curricular sábados felices todos that's this is the message I really want to impart to young people here which is all of you and middle they were definitely muchos Aurora's fear protects you from any mistakes like Andy say go Mamay Amalia and then there are some people who say that because my last name is adria better you know Prince lo mismo pero no tengo miedo uno al otro para cerca idea so that I don't think the same way as other people because with the sphere I still keep opening one place after than another right next to each other no happy with that last Tuesday open my new resin new vehicle all boy otra vez Nino's UFOs again young and old I am a crazy from the Mexican cuisine and yes Amen familia mexicana like ask Italian I'm half Mexican myself unfair here of course de que los mexicanos no being on a comedy ek no way and porting hola Rosa Mexicano so what I'm really afraid with this one is that Mexicans will come and eat in it and say this is not a Mexican restaurant follow me but I'm a Latina Cantor I must be go cuando cuando el restaurante a no for me people have to sort of succumb to magic to the magic when they enter a restaurant la casa de los productos de los ingredientes no sorry most Odo's the complexity of ingredients we all know about the I do it a lot we're not gay lavinia the tortilla that we had today was twice as good as anything I'm making these days no one else can I say and the good thing is that I know that this is a data Korea I shouldn't see Tommy Lee yet Cambodia sells love tacos la lah stitches tienen que service a big wall porque dynasty in sophistica lo que no necessity hacer lo at la mejor pizza attack o meu amor gaza en un sitio millie no pasa nada so these are two restaurants one is a taqueria and it was very important to him because he believes that that you don't have to make everything so sophisticated that even the most basic humble foods should be well made as well and this is the restaurant next Friday that's very beautiful most American to a loom Mexico contemporanea Mexico autentico what I want to do with this restaurant is show present-day an authentic contemporary Mexico I will a comida these are some of the dishes this is the restaurant in the taqueria street food ceviche Ricardo Ricardo the Mexican is hundred meters to to the tickets and this is a hundred twenty and I'm fear when I make forty one eye closed free one and anymore fear for open Enigma of course a similar maneuver sir valiant a years look again see analyst four minutes but this fear is going to make me courageous and that's the message I want to communicate young Chefs here yay pegado me pegado me penitence eeeh no the dementia fee on the Louie de comer Tiedemann Albert adrià I've paid I've done my penance from the transition of lbe to becoming Albert adrià dangling people I have my my team bingo laughs ganas a la fuerza and I have the desire and the dough estimate igual aviary demos so the truth is I don't care about poor Tonto or recommend Oh so to sum up Saruman Lee sin duda Spinoza tourisme sclavi get the provoke el miedo being humble is one of the key things that will make you afraid reflects evil fear will also make you know zombies yke it's not the same there as over there Hospital fear makes you respectful bonus toe honest Analia grande you know you say honest nadie there's no one great who is an honest yeah Trevizo porque cuando su parasail me lo Dracula tell o carga vomitus it makes you daring because when you overcome your fear you can take on Dracula yourself poor Tonto home any solace fulfill Ragusa so to all of you young people here today I can only say one thing be afraid thank