Movie: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Genre: documentary
Synopsis: Ferran Adrià is a world-renowned chef who runs the equally world-renowned El Bulli restaurant outside Barcelona, Spain. The restaurant is only open six months of the year – from July through December. The other six months are used by the chef and his staff to develop new dishes for the upcoming season. This documentary follows them in the painstaking process of developing some of the exotic dishes that make up the 30+ course meals served at the restaurant.
My two cents: For many parts of this documentary, I would like to have had a narrator explaining what exactly was going on. Many of the cooking techniques were one I had never heard of – indeed, some were invented on the spot. A voice-over would have been useful in understanding what was being done and why. That said, this was a pretty interesting glimpse into what goes into the “menu” of world-class restaurants.
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