A Day At El Bulli by Ferran Adria
I had heard great things about Ferran Adria’s A Day At El Bulli and the cheap amazon.com price was too good to pass on. The book is dictionary size, but is mostly comprised of photographs with small captions. Small leaflets are dispersed throughout the book on topics ranging from the reservation system to creative thinking. It records the events of a typical day at El Bulli. El Bulli is a restaurant is Roses, Spain that has been voted best restaurant in the world numerous times over. They serve cutting edge, playful food in the form of a 30+ dish tasting menu. El Bulli is open for 6 months out of the year starting in April and receives 2,000,000 requests for about 8,000 seats yearly. During the other six months Adria and his culinary team conduct research to complete a new menu for the next years service. As you can imagine, a man as meticulous as Adria put together a meticulously detailed book.
The average day at El Bulli is outlined in 5 minute intervals and mostly pictorially, from images of the sweeping early morning views of the restaurant to photographs of the culinary team shutting down shop. The photos are pretty good, but no where near the quality or interest of those in the Alinea cookbook. The middle of A Day at El Bulli includes recipes. The most interesting and, funny enough, simplest is for a pumpkin oil candy. Some sugar is cooked to a hard crack stage then stretched into a thin film. Pumpkin oil is poured onto the still molten sugar film and falls to the work surface, encasing itself in a very thin film of hard sugar. The diner then bites into it and gets sweet candy and juicy pumpkin oil. Other recipes include “Margarita 2005:” A margarita granita topped with salted foam and served in a shot glass made of ice and “Langoustine with Quinoa:” A langoustine tail coated in puffed quinoa and served with various garnishes.
This book falls into the same category as Alinea: Even if you never cook a single recipe from it it’s worth looking at. It’s a book about service, creativity, cooking, and enjoying life. This is a must have for those into “molecular gastronomy” and playing with their food.
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Well, you’ve added yet another book to my already impossibly long list. I’ve just received Herve This’s “Molecular Gastronomy- Exploring the Science of Flavor” through Amazon (a whopping 10 bucks used) and if you haven’t checked it out yet, it seems like a book that would be right up your alley.
Yeah I’ve read that and the “sequel” kitchen mysteries. They’re a little thick at times but very short. If you take the time to understand the information those books are quite useful. I’m in the middle of reading “Under Pressure” by Thomas Keller right now.
My sister gave me this book for Christmas. The photos are really beautiful. I hadn’t heard of it, but I’m glad to have it sitting on my coffee table, for sure.
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