Food for Delightful Thoughts

I’m not much into coffee table books, but I confess I did buy this one with such intent. Beautiful photography, shiny cover, and (like the cherry on the cake) with an awesome portrait of Ferran Adrià by Matt “The Simpsons” Groening on the cover. To my surprise, the book is more than pretty pictures stitched together.

Food for Thought. Thought for Food: A Reflection on the Creative Universe of Ferran Adria(Actar, 2009) by artist Vicente Todolí and Tate Modern Director, Richard Hamilton, has a lot of similarities to the previous A Day at ElBulli, but definitely presents the magic of the Catalan chef with an extra nudge of… well, art. The chef that probably has brought Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics to gastronomy is raised to a well deserved pedestal with this book. For all food and/or art lovers, this sure is a beautiful piece of reading.

I did manage to score seats at the Fat Duck once, but I guess El Bulli will remain on my coffee table, at least for quite a while.

Some pictures from the book: