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Mayo 25th, 2009

Reuben Wu, from Ladytron, will update us with the food he encounters in the different cities/countries he is visiting while on tour. Enjoy!

Iced Yum Yum in the studio. Kent, England.

Freshly dug up garlic, barbeque roasted and puréed with Parmesan cheese & olive oil on oven baked bread

Oreo Cheesecake, London.

Full English Breakfast. London.

Lobster, Oyster, Caviar. Brunch Buffet at 7 star Burj Arab Hotel, Dubai.

Fisherman’s Wharf, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos.

Thousand Islands, Indonesia.

and fresh coconut!

See Urchin, Galapagos Archipelago.

Taken from the bottom of the sea on a snorkelling expedition. We split it with a knife and ate the good bits.

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Typical breakfasts in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Lunch in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Traditional chocolates in El Hatillo, near Caracas. Venezuela.

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Encocado de langosta at Kiosko de Renato. Puerto Ayorra, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador.

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Wor Tip and Siu Loong Bow. Mei Mei Restaurant, Chinatown, Liverpool.

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Calzone Vulcano. Il Forno Restaurant, Liverpool.

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Breakfast at home, London.

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Olives & Coca-Colas at Bodega La Ardosa, Madrid.

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Beetroot salad. Casa Ñam Ñam, Madrid.
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Chorizo cooked in cider. Casa Ñam Ñam, Madrid.
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Chicken Foie Gras. Casa Ñam Ñam, Madrid.
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Goat cheese & blue cheese balls covered with pistachio.
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Peas hummus. Casa Ñam Ñam, Madrid.
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Panna Cotta with orange marmalade and dark chocolate.
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Pani Poori at Diwana Restaurant, 121 Drummond Street, London UK
These are hollow fried wheat balls served with tamarind water and herbs.
You make a hole in the Poori and spoon the water inside and eat them whole.
Explosions of flavour, these things are out of this world...
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Wild Boar with Mashed Potato, Spinach and Caramelised Onions.
Panzano in Chianti, Italy.
*It took 2 days to prepare the wild boar.
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Tempura Sage Leaves. Panzano in Chianti, Italy.
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Carrot juice freshly pressed in the morning.
Panzano in Chianti, Italy.
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Eggs on toast, from the hens outside that morning...
Panzano in Chianti, Italy.
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Fresh Figs from the tree outside. Panzano in Chianti, Italy.
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Roast Pigeon stuffed in Bay Leaves wrapped in Bacon.
Panzano in Chianti, Italy.
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Langoustines. Lochlevan, Glencoe, Scotland.
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The mini version of Irn-Bru. Tyndrum, Scotland.
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Surf Clams cooked in Cider at the Lochlevan Seafood Cafe, Scotland.
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Meat Feast, Hungary.
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Cumberland Toad-in-the-hole. Spitalfields, London, UK.
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3am cheeseburger somewhere near Liverpool Street, London, UK.
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Catfish sandwich. Cafe 101, Hollywood.
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Manhattan Buttermilk Pancake breakfast.
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Kumomoto Oysters in Sydney Fish Market.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Nam Nam at a barbeque restaurant, Korea.
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Shangay style Belly Pork. Melbourne.
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Freshwater Eel at a Japanese restaurant in Brisbane, Australia.
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Steamed Pork Dumplings in Chilli Sauce. Melbourne, Australia.
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Geoduck. Sliced and served like sashimi. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Hawaii Big Island Lunch. Hawaii.
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"Ultimate Breakfast". London.
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Oysters and Octopus, London.
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Mayo 22nd, 2009

Borough Market is, probably, the best market in London.
Huge, colourful, full of delicious and amazing looking food.
A foodie’s paradise.
All the traders will nicely invite you to taste a bit of their stuff for free, and, follow my advice, try everything!
I fell in love there with rhubarb jam, a delicacy that I haven’t been able to find in Spain.
Getting to Borough Market is easy, the tube station is London Bridge.
For more info about opening times, how to get there, and the market itself visit http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/

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Mayo 14th, 2009

This Is Why You Are Fat

Eat Me Daily

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Tartatachán

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Jesús Fuentes Guaza

Jaime Narváez

Ricardo Fumanal

Nicolás Santos

Jenny Jenny

Tower of Meaning

Jessica Boston

Peseta

¡Glück! niños con suerte

Agente Morillas

La Casita de Wendy

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The Misshapes

Miguel B. Núñez

Silja Götz

Mayo 14th, 2009

Mónica Escudero, directora de las revistas Madriz y Barcelonés, nos presenta el maravilloso libro de postres de Albert Adrià. A disfrutar.

Natura, de Albert Adrià.
Comer con los ojos.


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Los postres, en la mayoría de los restaurantes, suelen considerarse la parte más humilde de la cocina -una suerte de arte menor al lado de los verdaderos protagonistas, “la comida de verdad”-, y los cocineros dedicados a ello, un poco menos cocineros que los otros. Pero, en la pequeña Cala Montjoi de Roses, hay un lugar mágico donde son conscientes de esas pequeñas delicias que ponen punto y final a la comida, un sitio donde el dulce se respeta tanto como lo salado y sus cocineros no viven relegados a un rincón.

Allí, en el Bulli, es donde tuvo la suerte de ejercer de cocinero de postres Albert Adrià -el hermano del gurú mundial de la cocina Ferran Adrià-, que recientemente se ha bajado del carro, con ganas de explorar nuevos campos y huir de la extrema presión que impone la alta gastronomía.

El primero de sus proyectos de vida-más-allá-del-Bulli fue Natura, un libro interactivo y bilingüe editado por El Bulli Books que presentó a finales del año pasado en Perú, y que ahora presenta en España, donde desvela su amor por los postres y por todo lo que sea dulce. Utilizando la naturaleza como fuente de inspiración -y con un ligero toque oriental, sobre todo en lo estético-, recrea en 49 recetas su devoción por los postres homenajeando las flores, las mariposas, las cuatro estaciones. Todos los platos se definen con una sola palabra, para reforzar su significado: Tierra, Roca, Mont-Blanc, Nieve, Deshielo, Bosque o Iceberg son algunos de los sugerentes nombres que definen las atmósferas naturales que el chef propone, desvelando detalladamente las técnicas -algunas muy complicadas, otras no tanto- que utiliza para elaborarlos.

Por ejemplo, esta fantástica mariposa de la foto no es otra cosa que un croquant de remolacha reposando sobre un leche de merengue de regaliz. Debajo, una gelatina de hierba luisa, galleta de chocolate, yogur y sorbete de melocotón rojo. ¿Alguien da más?

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Para los que no puedan -o no quieran- pagar los 75 € que cuesta (y vale) Natura, y tampoco se vean capaces de ponerse con la esferificación a estas alturas de la película, Adrià está a punto de editar otro volumen, mucho más sencillo y totalmente dedicado a la cocina casera, con el que para lucirse no se necesitarán más utensilios que los que cualquiera tiene en casa, más una báscula “para acertar con las medidas”.

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Además ha inaugurado un gastrobar en Barcelona, Inopia, y está a punto de comercializar su propia línea de salsas y congelados -salsa brava, croquetas y jugos de pollo y cerdo serán sus primeros lanzamientos- para acercar la alta cocina a los fogones de casa bajo el sello Travol, un anagrama de los dos pilares de su cocina: tradición y evolución.

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Natura, by Albert Adrià.
Eat with your eyes.

Desserts, at most restaurants, are often considered the humblest part of cooking -a kind of minor art standing next to the main protagonists, “the real food”-, and the cooks devoted to it less of a cook than the rest. But at the small Cala Montjoi, in Roses, there is a magic place where they are aware of the importance of those little delicacies, a place where sweet have the same respect than savory, and where its cooks are not left out.

There, at El Bulli, is where Albert Adrià -brother of Ferran Adrià, the world guru of cooking- had the luck of practise as a dessert’s cook. He has recently decided to move on, willing to explore new fields and escaping from the extreme pressure that high gastronomy imposes.

The first of his projects of life-beyond-El-Bulli was Natura, an interactive and bilingual book published by El Bulli Books that he presented at the end of last year in Perú, and that now presents in Spain, where he reveals his love for desserts and for everything sweet. Using nature as a source of inspiration -and with a little oriental touch, specially in regards to aesthetics-, he recreates in 49 recipes his devotion for desserts paying tribute to flowers, butterflies, the four seasons. All the dishes are defined by just one word in order to reinforce their meaning: Earth, Rock, Mont-Blanc, Snow, Thaw, Forest or Iceberg are just some of the suggestive names that define the different natural atmospheres that the chef proposes, revealing in detail the techniques -some of them very complicated, others not so much- that he has used in order to elaborate them.

For instance, this fantastic butterfly (see picture above) is nothing else but a beetroot croquant lying over a liquorice meringue bed. Under, a jelly made of verbena, chocolate cookie, yoghourt and red peach sorbet. What more could you ask for?

For those who can’t -or don’t want- to spend the 75 € that costs (and worths) Natura, and that don’t see the point to start with spherification at this time of life, Adrià is about to publish another volume, much easier and totally devoted to traditional cooking; with it, in order to show off, there won’t be necessary any more cooking utensils than those ones that we all have at home, plus scales to get the right measures.

Also, he has inaugurated a gastrobar in Barcelona, Inopia, and he is about to commercialize his own line of sauces and frozen food -salsa brava, croquettes and chicken and pork stock will be the first launchings- in order to bring Haute Cuisine closer to our kitchens, under the brand Travol, an anagram of the two basic pillars of his cooking: tradition and evolution.