Tag: El Bulli

Eat streets

Finally over Ferran fatigue: your questions answered

I got Ferran Adria fatigue and can only now face answering those questions. It’s not as bad as my Gordon Ramsay fatigue. Anyway I’m over it now. My main task was to ask questions for other publications so not everything was answered in full. In case you missed it Adria was launching his book “A Day at elBulli” and gave a talk put on by the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Here we go: Phil: Can I please have a […]

Eat streets

Enjoy the blood sport of criticism while they take a pound of your flesh

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVaZwJn-ZcM] It’s a mistake when visiting the UK not to enjoy the country’s media while munching on Melton Mowbray Pork Pie, potted shrimps on toast and home made blackberry and (scrumped) apple pies – especially its critics and attack dog journalists. At the top of the tree are Jeremy Paxman, AA Gill, the god Jeremy Clarkson and that rude cunt of a restaurant reviewer Giles Coren. Many Australians won’t be familiar with Paxman, the presenter of Newsnight who makes an […]

Food blogs

Exclusive: Ferran Adria says blogs are the big food revolution

Thanks to Matt Preston, creative director of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, for sharing his exclusive from El Bulli’s Ferran Adria: I caught up with Mr Adria and a few journos at MadridFusion08 in Jan. His opening response was to a question about what the big changes in food were this year. His answer was translated from Spanish so there may be nuances missed by the translator but the inference was that there has been a explosion in blogs. […]