Results tagged “El Bulli” from Birmingham Mail - Restaurant Spy

Among the gifts that Santa left beneath the Christmas tree was a fabulous book about the Spanish restaurant El Bulli, frequently voted the best in the world.

It's jam-packed with photographs and information, with a few recipes scattered through for those who have access to ingredients such as liquid nitrogen and equipment such as syringes to create little bubbles of flavour.

The pioneering cuisine at El Bulli - so modern it makes the food of Heston Blumenthal appear dated - mightn't be everyone's cup of freeze-dried tea, but it fascinates me.

Searching for information about a cookery book on the web, I chanced upon the site of a company called Infusion which supplies a starter kit for El Bulli style cooking.

For those who don't know, El Bulli, in Spain, is regarded by some as the world's finest restaurant and produces startling, modern dishes using pioneering techniques of the sort favoured by Britain's very own mad scientist cook Heston Blumenthal.

It got me wondering whether domestic cooks really ought to bother themselves mastering these new skills rather than relying on the methods that have stood the test of time.