Guru to a new generation of chefs from Chicago to Copenhagen Spains Ferran Adria has been featured on Time" magazines list of the 100 most influential people of our times & touted by the press as an alchemist & a genius. His restaurant El Bulli was ranked first on " Restaurant Magazines" Top 50 list in 2006 2007 & 2008 & has retained this title in 2009. Considered foods preeminent futurist a mad Catalonian scientist & the godfather of culinary foam & other gastronomic advances Adria has distilled his culinary knowledge into a practical handbook that will more often be found face up on the counter than collecting dust on a shelf. A dictionary of present-day cooking " Modern Gastronomy: A to Z" puts equal emphasis on the nature of ingredients their reactions & the processes they undergo to create the final product. You can quickly look up & find in plain language everything you need to know about the science of cooking & the art of combining flavors & textures. The first English translation of the bestselling Lexico Cientifico Gastronomico this books lexical format provides for each ingredient or term a definition the ingredients source & suggestions for its use. A scientific exploration of the possibilities of food this much-anticipated book
Includes:: a foreword by Harold Mc Gee author of " On Food & Cooking" & contributor to " Nature" " New York Times" " Fine Cooking" & " Physics Today". It is this rigorous scientific viewpoint that sets the book apart enabling you to develop processes tastes & textures that give your new products a competitive edge."