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Ferran Adrià

Sardines, chocolate and UI

Ferran Adrià──世界に名を馳せるシェフは、肩の高さに人さし指を立て、これから言わんとすることを強調した。「イワシとホワイトチョコレートを混ぜちゃいけないなんて、誰が言った？」。目を大きく見開き、黒々とした眉を高く上げて、さあどうだという表情をつくる。「わたしの言ってることがわかるかな？」。

He stands in front of a white board about two meters high. There are 12 papers pinned together filled with data. Around us, five or six web developers, user interface designers, and other members gathered in a workshop called a "tager" to create a "bullipedia" (an online database that stores all kinds of knowledge about gastronomy). We were talking about founding.

Secluded from the hustle and bustle of Barcelona by a cool, dimly lit garden, Taller is a stately 18th-century building. Adrià, her, her brother Alberto and core members of El Bulli, the restaurant made famous by Adrià, have spent six months each year there since 2000.

Boards are leaning against every wall. Each one is pasted with a bripedia, a memo of a larger and more ambitious project that Adrià is exploring, and a hand-written organization chart with a wealth of information and diagrams of the roles of each working group. Books on photography and architecture are piled up like a skyscraper on the coffee table, and on the sideboard are "Four Stages in the Relationship between Science and Culinary Arts," "The Origin of Man," and "History of the Dialogue between Science and Culinary Arts." ] are lined up.

Adrià led everyone back out onto the terrace where the meeting had started 20 minutes earlier, and seated them on either side of a long, narrow table. Adria has already been in and out of Taller three times since they arrived. It was to show him what he thought was important to the job: books, photographs, documents. Its job is to transform what is hailed as the world's best restaurant into a home for innovation.

The mechanics of white asparagus

Taller is full of memorabilia of El Bulli. Cutlery made specifically for a specific dish, plates made just for serving a course, magazine covers and newspaper front pages featuring Adria, Adria by Matt Groening, creator of the animated television series The Simpsons. caricature of. The kitchen is simple, with a counter with a sink and a workbench with a built-in induction cooker under a huge steel extractor fan. Ingredients are lined up on a wall, and 720 glass bottles sealed with corks are illuminated from behind by lights, as if they contain some kind of powerful chemical rather than spices or fragrances. appear.