For 84 Euros per menu degustacion, I expect my socks to be knocked off, not just by one or two plates, but by all 8. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case at Sauc restaurant last night. My favorite dish was the poached egg, topped with cereal and caviar all set in a cappuccino broth. It may …
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This was breakfast: garlic spinach atop organic eggs atop pan con tomate. Sencillo pero perfecto before my 2 hour walk today through Gracia, a barrio I had not yet thoroughly explored. As I was eating breakfast I was thinking about how many beautiful doors, windows and building facades there are in Barcelona, and I decided …
Continue reading More things I’ve learned at Osmosis and windows and doors of BCN
Chef Frederic changes the menu weekly, all but the foie and the chocolates. So, 5 of the 7 change. The menu above is slightly wrong. I took a picture of it and then realized I needed to help them with some spelling errors; a word that we don't recognize as food in English - "shell" …
On Sunday at about 8:15 a.m., I met Shan, Fred and family at the airport, then S and I hopped the 9:46 a.m. train to Figueres. Conner and Fred drove ahead to Cadaqués (feature picture at top), dropped off the other two kids, then came back to the Figueres train station to pick us up, …
I'm loving it! Oooohh, I'm so mad McDonald's uses that as a tag line, as I've always used it and now it sounds gross when I say it. Anyway, I AM loving my new stage, the chefs, and the food we produce. I'm also loving my weekends that are now free after early Sat a.m. …
So, I love my new stage. I know it's only day 2, but it's totally different and I needed a change to help me change my outlook. I went in today at 12:00 p.m. and left at 4:00 p.m. for the afternoon siesta. I go back at 8:00 p.m. and will probably finish at 1:00 …
So far, amazing and good! I like my chef Frederic a lot, except that he has threatened to put "cinco kilos" on me before I leave at the end of the month. Translation: he thinks I'm skinny and wants to put 10 pounds on me by the end of June. No problem. I've already eaten …
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Although the lighting was terrible, these are the main cocineros outside of Dos Palillos after we finished Saturday night/Sunday a.m. From left to right, back row: Mario - all cold apps; Borja - grill and 3rd in command at the restaurant after Albert (owner) and Chef de Cuisine Takeshi; Rachel - pastry; Takeshi - Chef …
Here's me looking happy in my pastry kitchen. I have the immersion circulator and the cryovac machine (not really a cryovac, but I like to call it that) over my right shoulder, and I'm making "chupitos" and macerated strawberries for stuffing the mochi. Here's the mochi before I pull it (it's not actually green; I …
I'm only about 1/4 of the way through the book because I can manage to read only a few pages each night before I fall asleep. It's not the contents of the book or the writing that's causing me to fall asleep, to be sure. I love the book. It's raw, it's unbelievable in its …
Salty Apron 