I DON'T KNOW. AND OTHER CERTAINTIES

On what we eat and what we are. A radical meditation on food, doubt and creativity by one of the most influential chefs of our time.

“If there is a sixth taste, it is the taste of stories.”

This is not a cookbook. It is a manifesto of doubt. In I Don’t Know. And Other Certainties, Andoni Luis Aduriz — the visionary behind Mugaritz — gathers ten years of writing and a lifetime of questioning to explore what eating truly means. For Aduriz, cuisine is not a set of techniques but a language: one that connects science and poetry, memory and innovation, ethics and pleasure.
Across these pages, food becomes a cultural, political and philosophical act. Why do we eat what we eat? What do taste, desire and tradition reveal about power, identity and belonging? From sustainability to nostalgia, from creativity to uncertainty, Aduriz dismantles culinary dogmas and proposes doubt as the most fertile ingredient of all. Rooted in the radical creative philosophy that has made Mugaritz one of the world’s most influential restaurants, this book invites readers to inhabit uncertainty — to see the table not as a place of consumption, but as a space for questioning, imagination and transformation.

KEY POINTS
• By the chef of Mugaritz (2 Michelin stars; 12 years in The
World’s 50 Best Top 10).

• A rare philosophical reflection from one of gastronomy’s
most intellectual voices.

• Explores food as culture, ethics, creativity and political act.

• Appeals to readers of food writing, cultural essays and
contemporary thought.