travel + culture
How to Get Around the Wait at El Bulli
El Bulli uses a lottery to assign its six-month season of reservations—and every single one of them for 2007 has been assigned.
06.08.07
- Keywords
- restaurants,
- spain,
- europe,
- lisa abend
travel + culture
One-Stop Shopping, With Tables Attached
A big trend is the combo restaurant and gourmet shop. And now the creator of one of Madrid's best Italian restaurants has gotten in on the act.
06.01.07
- Keywords
- restaurants,
- madrid,
- spain,
- shopping,
- italian
food + cooking
You Say Tomato, I Say What?
The most polemical news in Barcelona's newspaper La
Vanguardia this week has to do not with the war in Iraq or the Sarkozy vs.
Royal match-up, but with pan con tomate.
05.04.07
- Keywords
- lisa abend,
- ingredients,
- barcelona,
- restaurants
food politics
What's Next? A Ban on Chorizo?
Endless articles in the Spanish press lament the passing of the Mediterranean diet.
04.30.07
- Keywords
- lisa abend,
- health + science,
- spain,
- restaurants
food + cooking
Cherries on Top
Leave it to the Catalans. The same people to bring us spherification and the lollipop are now building a better cherry.
03.20.07
- Keywords
- ingredients,
- fruit,
- farming,
- agriculture,
- lisa abend
chefs + restaurants
Magic Moments from Madrid
Hundreds of chefs, writers, and critics turned out for Madrid
Fusion, one of the most interesting get-togethers in the food
world.
01.18.07
- Keywords
- lisa abend,
- chefs,
- spain,
- ferran adria,
- heston blumenthal