America's Book Club: José Andrés on Not Following Recipes

José Andrés: "I don't think I ever follow the recipe. That's why I always say I'm a I'm not a good chef. I'm, I'm barely a, I'm a good cook, but I'm not a chef. I don't follow the recipe very well. Why? Because it's boring. Repetition is great in mathematics and in physics…But in cooking, you have a lot of margin of error, but also a lot of margin for creativity is what makes cooking fascinating, that you can fail or you can succeed sometimes by a gram. And that's the difference between failure and success. And I always say when you're failing cooking, say stop complaining and you change the name of the recipe, which is the name of my new book. You celebrate. Oh my God, I burned the potatoes I like. I stop complaining and you say, do you like my burnt potatoes I made today? And it works. Usually. Because it's very. Difficult to make something like this inedible. Anybody can cook something. Everybody, to make something inedible, you have to try it hard. Really hard."

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