{"id":1484,"date":"2009-03-07T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2009-03-07T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:00:14","slug":"worlds-best-chef-cooks-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/worlds-best-chef-cooks-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s best chef cooks in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ferran Adria, owner of the famous El Bulli restaurant in Spain, which has been\u00a0rated as\u00a0the top restaurant in the world for\u00a0a number of years, addressed the Design Indaba in Cape Town last week, reports the EatOut<\/strong> newsletter.<\/p>\n

Adria is well known for his deconstructionist approach to preparing meals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He is guided by creativity, he says, and is himself amazed that the creative inspiration still comes to him, after so many years of owning the restaurant.\u00a0 His current inspiration is Japan,\u00a0 not for its food but “the soul of the country”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“Creativity is not copying”, he said, but acknowledged that everyone is influenced by past experiences.\u00a0\u00a0 He encouraged the chefs\u00a0and food lovers attending his workshop to be passionate about food and its creation.<\/p>\n

Adria demonstrated his controlled gellification of liquids and how to prepare soya spaghetti using a syringe.\u00a0\u00a0 He spoke about the marriage between ecology, education and science within the world of design.\u00a0\u00a0 El Bulli has crockery and cutlery especially designed to match its creative food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ferran Adria, owner of the famous El Bulli restaurant in Spain, which has been\u00a0rated as\u00a0the top restaurant in the world for\u00a0a number of years, addressed the Design Indaba in Cape Town last week, reports the EatOut newsletter. Adria is well known for his deconstructionist approach to preparing meals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He is guided by creativity, he says, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[32366,978,977,138,975,976,30,13],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t