Tag Archives: Ferran Adria

L’Arpege – Lasting Impressions

Posted on June 25, 2013 by John Sconzo in Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Family, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, France, Pastry, Photo Posts, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

The Adria brothers of elBulli and Rene Redzepi of noma have been the most visibly influential individual chefs of the past twenty years, while Japanese cuisine has undoubtedly been the single most influential cuisine of that time period. However, no discussion [...]

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L’Air du Temps- Much More than a Beautiful Scent

Posted on May 22, 2013 by John Sconzo in BeNeLux, Culinary Personalities, Family, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

 
I first became enthralled by Chef Sang-hoon Degeimbre’s cooking at the 2011 StarChefs International Chefs Congress in New York City. His cooking was beautiful, alluring and had soul. I longed to actually get to taste it. His restaurant, L’Air du [...]

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Elements – A Meal of the Moment for the Ages

Posted on February 28, 2012 by John Sconzo in Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, New Jersey, Pastry, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

I got an email from ChuckEats asking if I’d be available to join he and Lesley along with Alex and Aki for dinner at Elements in Princeton, N.J. on a Sunday evening. Since Princeton is a 3.5 hour drive from [...]

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Sunday Photo – elBulli – My First Time There

Posted on July 31, 2011 by John Sconzo in Restaurants, Retro Photos, Spain, Travel

With elBulli now closed for good as a restaurant, I can’t help but reminisce. The first time I ever saw elBulli was in August of 2003. when we were visiting friends in Catalunya. We were in the area and I [...]

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Ferran Adrià in conversation with Colman Andrews

Posted on July 13, 2011 by John Sconzo in Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Restaurants, Slow Food, Spain, Travel, Video

elBulli, the most celebrated restaurant of the last 20 years and maybe ever, is closing in its current form for good at the end of this month. As is clear to any reader of this website, Ferran Adria is my [...]

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elBulli 2011 – The Courses

Posted on June 1, 2011 by John Sconzo in Andrew Sconzo, Cocktails & Libations, Cooking, Culinary Personalities, Family, Food and Drink, Food Events, LJ Sconzo, Restaurants, Slow Food, Spain, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

While all courses will be presented here, I will not attempt a detailed accounting of each course. There has already been much written about these and other courses from this, the final season of elBulli as we have come to [...]

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A Family Affair at elBulli

Posted on May 31, 2011 by John Sconzo in Andrew Sconzo, Culinary Personalities, Family, Food and Drink, LJ Sconzo, Restaurants, Slow Food, Spain, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel

Over the years a lot has been written about elBulli. I’ve written a few things myself and described previous meals there in detail on the eGullet Society forums here and here. Since those days coverage of elBulli meals and dishes [...]

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Tickets – A Traveler’s Dream

Posted on May 12, 2011 by John Sconzo in Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Restaurants, Slow Food, Spain, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Travel

The setting is sensational, combining a number of seating locations, bars and kitchens , resulting in a collection of visual cues to keep the eyes occupied and entertained. The restaurant would have been just as much at home if located [...]

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Blog Find – Lisa Abend

Posted on November 8, 2010 by John Sconzo in Books, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Spain

Ever wonder what it must be like to work at elBulli as a stagiare (culinary apprentice)? One of the most coveted positions in the entire cooking world has been examined up close by my friend, Lisa Abend. Many of you [...]

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Starchefs ICC 2010: Art vs Craft – Keller, Kinch & Barber Discuss

Posted on November 3, 2010 by John Sconzo in Art, Culinary Personalities, Current Affairs, Food Events, Musings, New York City, Slow Food, Starchefs

The main theme of the 5th Annual Starchefs International Chefs Congress this past September in NYC was Art vs. Craft. There is no question that cooking involves craft and good cooking involves plenty of it. The more controversial question [...]

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