Welcome to Gourmandbooks! Welcome to Gourmandbooks! We specialize in offering you the very best food and wine books, often impossible to find in the average bookstore. If you want the best cookbook, it is for sale here. Buying El Bulli 1998-2002 or Text and Pretext in Textures is the next best thing to eating Ferran Adria's food at his restaurant. . . We may not be able to get you a seat there, but we can send you the book!