The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran

The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli

Now in paperbackâ€”Kitchen Confidential meets Heat in the first behind-the-scenes portrait of the worldâ€™s most influential restaurant and the aspiring culinary geniuses who toiled to make it so exceptional.

WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES AT ELBULLI?

Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, elBulli is where chef Ferran Adriàâ€™s remarkable cuisine comes to lifeâ€”with dragon cocktails that make the drinker breathe smoke and caviar made from tiny spheres of olive oil. elBulli is also the object of culinary pilgrimageâ€”millions clamor every year for a reservation at one of its tables.

Yet few people know that, behind each of the thirtyor more courses that make up a meal at elBulli, a small army of stagiairesâ€”apprentice chefsâ€”labor at the precise, exhausting work of executing Adriàâ€™s astonishing vision. In The Sorcererâ€™s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchenat Ferran Adriàâ€™s elBulli, Lisa Abend explores the remarkable system that AdriÃ uses to run his restaurant and, in the process, train the next generation of culinary stars.

Granted more access to Adrià and the elBulli kitchen than any other writer in the restaurantâ€™s history, Abend follows thirty-five young men and women as they struggle to master the cutting-edge techniques, grueling hours, furious creativity, and interpersonal tensions that come with working at this celebrated institution. Her lively narrative captures a great cast, including a young Korean cook who camps on the doorstep of elBulli until he is allowed to work in the kitchen; an ambitious chef from one of Switzerlandâ€™s top restaurants struggling to create his own artistic vision of cuisine; and an American couple whose relationship may not withstand the unique pressures of the restaurant. What emerges is an irresistible tale of aspiring young talents caught, for good or ill, in the opportunity of a lifetime.

Taken together, their stories form a portrait of the international team that helps make a meal at elBulli so memorable. They also reveal a FerranÂ Adrià few ever see, one who is not only a genius chef and artist but also a boss, teacher, taskmaster, businessman, and sometimes- flawed human being. Today, food has become the focus of unprecedented attention, and The Sorcererâ€™s Apprentices also explores the strange evolutionâ€”in less than two decadesâ€”of a once-maligned profession into a source of celebrity.

Country	USA
Author	Lisa Abend
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Atria Books
EAN	9781451626629
Edition	Reprint
Genre	COOKING
ISBN	1451626622
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
MPN	YES5439504
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	304
PartNumber	YES5439504
PublicationDate	2012-02-07
Publisher	Atria Books
ReleaseDate	2012-02-07
Studio	Atria Books

The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli

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