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JOSE ANDRES: Hello, people of Harvard, people of the world.
My name is Jose Andres.
I am a chef.
You, I, we are at Minibar.
Minibar is very much at the heart of everything I do.
I've been cooking since I was 14.
I began working in kitchens in Barcelona,
and especially in one of a restaurant called
El Bulli, a restaurant that nobody knew back in the '80s,
and where the chef was a young guy Ferran Adria.
Almost 30 years later, I'm very proud to tell you he's one of my best friends,
he's my mentor, and he's the person I learned the most from.
He's without a doubt the reason that we were able to put together
this amazing physics class at Harvard.
So just for the record, I am a chef.
We are chefs.
We cook.
We are not trying to be physicists.
We're not trying to be scientists.
We are only trying to make sure that the culinary world and the science world
talk to each other.
Everything you're going to be learning is the very clear explanation
of everything that happens in cooking every day in every kitchen
and through hundreds of years of history.
Minibar every night, more than 30 courses.
And quite frankly, probably many of the techniques we use here
you've been learning them through the class, and if not, you will.
But one of the classes I give every year is about [INAUDIBLE], and probably
the star [INAUDIBLE] will be a spherification.
And here, we are doing a lot of spheres, but this one is the cooler.
Come here.
When you are able to do a spherification,
you see a beautiful clam, and kind of making sure
that the natural juice of the clam will remain outside the meat of the time.
This is brilliant, and this is why I'm so happy about this class at Harvard,
that for first time, we really have been able to take seriously
that amazing connection between science and the food we eat.
Before, we were in the dark.
Today, I see light on the horizon.
Today, we are far away more prepared.
So see you soon.
Hasta pronto.
Bye bye.
I'm very funny because for the few people
that sometimes have something against molecular cooking,
well, take a look at this.
We are grating Parmesan cheese.
Wow.
This is really molecular.
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