A Day at El Bulli by Ferran Adrià, Juli Soler, Albert Adrià
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Book Reviews of A Day at El Bulli
Book Review: One step short of The Adoration
Summary: 4 Stars
Others have pretty much said it in terms of the positives and negatives of this book. I love food and cooking and I occasionally work in a restaurant kitchen for fun so I have a sense for the business. I enjoyed 98% of the book based on that affinity. As for the other 2% of the book, after about 25 pages I swore that if I saw another picture of one of the el Bulli staff that looked like it had been lifted from a Renaissance adoration painting I'd lose it. It's a very enjoyable work but keep in mind that it really is a book of worship vs. an information piece that is meant to really give you an in-depth view into el Bulli.Book Review: Food Porn
Summary: 4 Stars
My feeling is that about 1 in a 1,000 people who buy this book will ever either A. eat at elBulli or B. prepare any of the few recipies in the book. But as food porn it's incredible. Glossy picture after picture of food, preparation of food, impossible incredible food and the amazingly complex life of the restaurant and people who prepare the most complex food in the world. This is a book to drool over and I've given it four stars only because of a Puritan ancestry...we shouldn't give ourselves in to so much lust.Book Review: Interesting, but not a cookbook
Summary: 3 Stars
As others have stated, this book is huge. It's about the size of a family bible. As a record of a culinary and restaurant phenomenon, it's interesting. It's an exhaustive album of photos that tries to show what it's like to be, work and eat at the restaurant.
As a cookbook, it is physically too big to be usable if anyone were to attempt these recipes. Since I am not a fan of molecular gastronomy, I have no idea if these recipes are useful and no desire to try them to find out. I can only imagine that for the cook who wants to cook in this way, they are a good feature of the book.
If you are an admirer of Adria or like molecular gastronomy, you would probably enjoy this book. If you are a foodie in general but with no particular liking for this kind of cooking, you might want to add the book to your collection merely as a record a notable chef's contributions to haute cuisine.
Book Review: the worst book about the best restaurant in the world
Summary: 2 Stars
How would you evaluate the quality of a book which is (supposed to be)tellling you about the best restaurant in the world?
You'd be expecting to see the techniques they are using for cooking,
Maybe some guidence for the chefs about how to acquire that kind of quality,
Some recipes might do as well,
and some photos to make the book more colorful and the concept more vivid.
What I wasn't expecting was a photo album, and very little information about the topics mentioned above.
The physically heavy book is full of pictures, relevant or irrelevant to elBulli.
Very little to read.
Now this book sits comfortably next to my toilet seat under the toilet papers,
where I use it as a last resort when I run out of magazines (or toilet papers)...
Yours respectfully.
Book Review: Quantity over quality
Summary: 2 Stars
The book is huge and heavy, but they're offering quantity over quality. The photos of the food are good; the other photos (surroundings, preparation, service) are generally mediocre. New and interesting insights into the phenomenon that is El Bulli are few. The book's subject may be El Bulli, but the presentation is pure Buca di Beppo.