Local cuisine

[blakej]

Chef Adrià,

Thanks so much for sharing your time and ideas with us here at eGullet.

How important is traditional Spanish cuisine and, in particular, Catalan cuisine to the "nueva cocina" as you practice it today? And as interest for this type of culinary experimentation grows worldwide, how important will it be to adapt this practice to the practitioners' traditional cuisine?

Regards,

Blake Jones

[Ferran Adrià]

I believe that now it's the time of chefs rather than national cuisines. It's more important that Frank Gehry is Frank Gehry than if he's Canadian. My feelings are Spanish and Catalonian, that's my mindset. I rarely cook with ingredients outside of a radius of 100kms around elBulli.