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ID: 247970
Title: Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food
Author: Colman Andrews
Narrator: Don Hagen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:35:31
Language: English
Release date: 12-24-10
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Genres: Business & Economics
Summary:
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 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 chefs 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 worlds best restaurant. Taking the listener from Adriàs Franco-era childhood near Barcelona through El Bullis wildly creative disco-beach days and into the modern-day wonderland of Adriàs restaurant kitchen and the workshop/laboratory where his innovations are born and refined, Andrews blends sweeping storytelling with culinary history to explore Adriàs extraordinary contributions to the way we eat. Through original techniques like deconstruction, spherification, and the creation of culinary foams and airs, Adrià has profoundly reimagined the basic characteristics of foods forms, while celebrating and intensifying the natural flavors of his raw materials. Yet, argues Andrews, these innovations may not be his most impressive achievements. Instead, Adriàs sheer creativity and courageous imagination are his true geniusa genius that transcends the chefs métier and can inspire and enlighten all of us.
Early in 2010, Ferran stunned the food world by announcing that he plans to close El Bulli at the end of the 2011 season for a two-year hiatus. Chefs, critics, and food-lovers everywhere are asking what that means for this legendary chef and his groundbreaking restaurant. Andrews reveals the inside story, from Ferran himself.
Entertaining and intimate, Ferran brings to life the most exciting food movement of our time and illuminates the ways in which Adrià has changed our worldforever altering our understanding of and appreciation for food and cooking.
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