Ferran Adria News

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It's almost a shocking site: homely but gutty-good biscuits with rabbit gravy sitting among avant garde visions of cod liver snow, foie gras parfaits,scrambled egg foam and other highly designed expressions from the gastronomic elite.

The devil's decade is ending with a fine-dining meltdown. It seems quaint to recall that fine-dining restaurants were once regarded as temples of food - eaters made pilgrimages to JoA l Robuchon in Paris, Thomas Keller in Yountville, Ferran AdriA in Bilbao, Heston Blumenthal in Bray, Susur Lee in Toronto.

Dr. Eades' Incredible Cooking Machine Gregg and I have become friends with Dr. Michael Eades, who, with his wife Dr.

Spain is the most innovative country in the world when it comes to food. It's also the most traditional.

Castelfranco Veneto, December 10 - Gourmet masterpieces by some of the world's greatest chefs are the subject of an unusual photo exhibition that has opened in northern Italy.

Copenhagen delegates who find their motivation flagging during a long evening session on the finer points of cap and trade could do far worse than to stop in for a meal at Noma.

The Spanish restaurant - a two-hour drive from Barcelona - is the crucible of the extraordinary and influential gastronomy of Ferran Adria.

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What did Spain ever give us except soggy paella, greasy chorizo sausages and pretty suspect cheap Rioja wine before Ferran Adria came along? It wasn't exactly a culinary destination and then one man with a gas canister in his hand changed all that and started the world foaming at the mouth.

Tucked away above a busy stretch of Davie Street is a restaurant most people would probably have trouble locating if they were going by address alone.

Spain, where foam became a culinary art form, laid the foundation stone on Wednesday for its first scientific university for chefs, complete with a research lab to explore the mysterious chemistry of taste.

Whether your holiday gift list is filled with gourmet chefs, television addicts or people who just love a good tale, this year's crop of cookbooks and other food-related volumes offers some excellent gift choices.

'Is chicken OK?' asks my friend. Startled, I assure her that anything she makes for dinner tonight will be fine.

The Chicago French Market, which opens Thursday in the Ogilvie Transportation Center's commuter concourse, is a tempting and convenient stop for commuters on the run.

Jobs: The traditional advice for businesses is to "eliminate inefficiencies." But a lot of the things that could be labelled as inefficiencies are actually what steer your product away from being a commodity.

Today is unofficially "Stephan Pyles Day" on SideDish. Andrew Chalk files this Chalk Talk report: When I open the menu of Samar to the "Inspirations From Spain" page, I feel that it could stand alone as the menu of a restaurant dedicated to New Spanish Cuisine .

Palate-pleasing cookbooks to give this season Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 17:43 Recent weeks have brought highly anticipated books like David Chang and Peter Meehan's "Momofuku," packed with recipes from Chang's popular New York restaurants; "Simple Fresh Southern" specialties from experts Matt Lee and Ted Lee; and a slew of baking ...

Louis Vuitton and Damien Hirst have teamed up to create a collection of luggage entitled, "95 SECRETAIRE SPECIAL CASE." Hirst's inspiration for the case was David Cronenburg's movie Dead Ringers.

In the almost 10 years I've been cobbling together this timely Christmas gift-giving wish list, never have I seen so many outstanding Canadian cookbooks as today.