This special volume celebrates twenty years of team work. In August 1983, Ferran Adrià started working with Juli Soler, who was the restaurant manager at elBulli at that time. Albert Adrià joined them in 1985.This book is a step-by-step of twenty years kitchen work, explaining the restaurant's development, the keys, and the results of Ferran Adrià's creations year after year. This cookbook is the first to be structured like an art catalogue. It covers every creation, with technical explanations, for the professional and the amateur, with a sumptuous presentation and a simple approach easy to understand for each recipe. The photos of Francesc Guillamet, the best photographer in Catalunya, are art masterpieces which enshrine the dishes of El Bulli. This is also the first cookbook in which a chef explains the source of inspiration for all his recipes, the influences behind his creation, the reasons for the techniques used, and his feelings about the result. This is the first elBulli book that is going to be published in various languages. It includes a CD-Rom with all the recipes, which are numbered and classified. All the dishes have been photographed for the book. See more pictures from the book...

Book Specifications Book Contents CD-Rom Contents Guide to the Book Pages: 496 Size: 31.5 x 24cm Weight: 4,465 grams appx. Words: Appx. 70,000 Book comes presented in its own case with a 22-page guide and an interactive hybrid CD-ROM compatible with MacOS & WIN98. Recipes have both UK and American measures. Catalogue Photographs Annexes Evolutionary analysys Combinations of products New products 371 Recipes Menus 2002 wine list Diagrams of the evolutionary analysis Recipe searcher Mosaic of photographs Recipe printing option Words: Appx. 170.000 Instruments/diagrams Evolution plan Index of the evolutionary analysis Organisation and philosophy Products Technology Preparation Styles and characteristics Vocabulary for evolutionary analysys Our own product code

Publication date for English version: November 2003 © Ferran Adrià, Juli Soler, Albert Adrià © Photography: Francesc Guillamet Text: Josep Maria Pinto Graphics and Image Editing: Roberta Sucupira, Marta Méndez Scanner and Image Editing: Fotograbados Igual CD-ROM Production: Antoni Pareja, Jordi Berenguer Technical Coordination: Daniel Bardají Printing and binding: Impresiones Generales S.A. CD-ROM, Master and Duplication : LAB-CDROM