Ferran The Inside Story of el Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food |
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Author:
| Andrews, Colman |
Narrated by:
| Hagen, Don |
ISBN: | 978-1-59659-729-7 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
Publisher: | Ascent Audio
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Imprint: | Gildan Audio |
Book Format: | Downloadable audio file |
List Price: | USD $34.98 |
Book Description:
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More than just the most influential chef of the late- twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius and a prophet by fellow chefs, worshipped (if often misunderstood) by critics and lay diners alike, Adrià is imitated and paid homage to in professional kitchens, and in more than a few private ones, all over the world. A reservation at his restaurant, El Bulli, is so coveted that scoring a table...
More DescriptionMore than just the most influential chef of the late- twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius and a prophet by fellow chefs, worshipped (if often misunderstood) by critics and lay diners alike, Adrià is imitated and paid homage to in professional kitchens, and in more than a few private ones, all over the world. A reservation at his restaurant, El Bulli, is so coveted that scoring a table is harder than nabbing fifty-yard-line tickets for the Super Bowl.In his lively, and unprecedented, close-up portrait of Adrià, award-winning food writer Colman Andrews traces this groundbreaking chef's rise from resort hotel dishwasher to culinary deity, and the evolution of El Bulli from a German-owned beach bar into the establishment voted annually by an international jury to be "the world's best restaurant." Taking the listener from Adrià's Franco-era childhood near Barcelona through El Bulli's wildl