The Former El Bulli Chef Is Now Serving Up Creative Inquiry

The Former El Bulli Chef Is Now Serving Up Creative Inquiry

Ferran Adrià Feeds the Hungry Mind: Mr. Adrià, 52, has always been inquisitive. Even during the peak years at El Bulli, when Restaurant Magazine named it the world’s best restaurant five times from 2002 to 2009 and he rocketed beyond the standard-fare celebrity chefs into the rarefied air of the gastronomic geniuses, he would pose random questions about the origin of vegetables or fruitOne day in November, Ferran Adrià, the Spanish chef who turned foods into foams and pioneered a new era in gastronomic innovation while running one of the world’s most popular restaurants, bounced through a loft space in Barcelona …READ MORE

3 January 2015