El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2010)
Revolutionary Spanish eatery El Bulli is a Michelin three-star restaurant in Roses, Spain (two hours northeast of Barcelona); each night, it serves a tasting menu of 30 courses, prepared by over 40 chefs, to a single seating of up to 50 guests. For the current season, its last before transforming into a culinary academy, over two million requests were received for the 8,000 available seats. Head chef Ferran Adrià , who took over the restaurant in 1987 and instituted the tradition of yearly developmental sabbaticals, has become the leading inspiration for avant-garde cuisine worldwide, alternately referred to as a mad scientist or Salvador Dali of the kitchen. For six months of the year, the head chef works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, this documentary is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adria himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"
Primary Title
- El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Date Broadcast
- Monday 21 January 2013
Release Year
- 2010
Start Time
- 00 : 10
Finish Time
- 01 : 40
Duration
- 90:00
Channel
- Rialto Channel
Broadcaster
- Sky Network Television
Programme Description
- Revolutionary Spanish eatery El Bulli is a Michelin three-star restaurant in Roses, Spain (two hours northeast of Barcelona); each night, it serves a tasting menu of 30 courses, prepared by over 40 chefs, to a single seating of up to 50 guests. For the current season, its last before transforming into a culinary academy, over two million requests were received for the 8,000 available seats. Head chef Ferran Adrià , who took over the restaurant in 1987 and instituted the tradition of yearly developmental sabbaticals, has become the leading inspiration for avant-garde cuisine worldwide, alternately referred to as a mad scientist or Salvador Dali of the kitchen. For six months of the year, the head chef works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, this documentary is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adria himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"
Classification
- M
Owning Collection
- Television Vault
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- French
- Spanish
Captioning Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
- elBulli (Restaurant)
- Documentary films
- Restaurants--Spain--Catalonia--Menus.
- Cooking--Spain--Catalonia.
Contributors
- Ferran Adrià (Interviewee)
- Gereon Wetzel (Director)
- Anna Ginesti Rosell (Writer)
- Gereon Wetzel (Writer)
- Ingo Fliess (Producer)
- Oriol Castro (Interviewee)
- Eduard Xatruch (Interviewee)
- Eugeni de Diego (Interviewee)
- Aitor Lozano (Interviewee)
Subjects
- elBulli (Restaurant)
- Documentary films
- Restaurants--Spain--Catalonia--Menus.
- Cooking--Spain--Catalonia.