Product Description

New York City chef/author Anthony Bourdain is invited to film the research laboratory of Ferran Adria, the most controversial and imitated chef in the world—chef/owner of El Bulli, voted "World's Best" by Restaurant Magazine and the most visited by chefs on sabbatical. The lab, an ultra modern, Dr. No-like facility with sliding walls, backlit ingredients, latest equipment and a full staff of devotees is tucked away inside a vast, renaissance-era palace in the old section of Barcelona, Spain. Adria and his chefs close the El Bulli restaurant for six months out of ever year to work on new concepts. Bourdain tracks Ferran's process from lab to a once-in-a-lifetime meal at El Bulli restaurant, enjoying a high-concept, surrealist, haute cuisine meal of unparalleled creativity and striking visual appearance.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37123 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Released on: 2006-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: DVD-ROM

Features

• ISBN13: 9780061157073
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author

Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York, and he is the host of the series No Reservations on the Travel Channel. He is the author of A Cook's Tour, Les Halles Cookbook, and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo.

Customer Reviews

Insightful Look Into Sci-Fi Cooking
This DVD is an amazing glimpse of the famous Chef Ferran Adria of Spain. Bourdain was the perfect choice for this doco on such a unique chef whose philosophy of blending science with gourmet cooking is so breathtakingly fresh. Bourdain goes through a complete meal with Adria, narrating his emotions and experiences, while showing the crazy creations of new-age food. From Apple Caviar to Cotton Candy style fish corpses served on dried skin, pasta-less ravioli, to carrot foam, the dishes alone make this DVD worth getting! A must have for any foodie!

Entertaining and Compelling
It's fascinating that Bourdain was invited to showcase delightfully mad scientist Chef Adria, as he is famously traditionalist and anti-fuss. However, he's also ideal as a food program host: Enthusiastic, charismatic, likeable, knowledgeable, down-to-earth, and articulate. Without having met him, he makes the viewer feel like he's a friend sharing a fabulous vacation. He makes this journey as much fun for the viewer as it appears to have been for him, and openly questions his own notions about food, its potential as art, investigating and preparing it from a scientific perspective, and the balance between quintessence and complexity. I look forward to successive viewings, and sharing the video with fellow fine food enthusiasts. Bourdain's television shows, terrific 'though they be, are restricted by the time limitations of the medium. It would be wonderful if he would produce more such DVDs that allow him to take the viewer a bit more in depth. Hey Mr. Tony, how about a French Laundry DVD? :-)

Cheaper than a trip to Spain...
This DVD helped to satisfy my curiosity about the "best restaurant in the world", at least according to a recent survey. If you are interested in
molecular gastronomy, Chef Adria is the Mr. Wizard of food science, and
he and his crew seem to love their work in the state-of-the-art laboratory where they spend half of each year experimenting with new concepts. Anthony Bourdain is the perfect host to take us through the three-hour dinner that shows off the results of their research. The beginning is a little slow, but
there is nothing quite like this restaurant, and this was a great way to
see what all the fuss is about.