The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli

By Lisa Abend

Categories: Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Journalist Lisa Abend spent a season inside elBulli, the Spanish restaurant of chef Ferran Adrià, often named the best restaurant in the world. She follows the young cooks, or stagiaires, who came from around the world to work unpaid in its kitchen, describing their long hours, their training and their hopes. Abend shows how Adrià's creative process and demanding standards shaped a generation of chefs.

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• Shane Parrish: “The former Spanish restaurant El Bulli was named the best in the world a record five times between 2002-2009. In 2009, author Lisa Abend went behind the scenes to reveal how it all worked. Abend was given unprecedented access to the restaurant and staff.”