What is Cooking: The Action: Cooking, The Result: Cuisine

A fascinating reflection on the essence of cooking - from Ferran Adri√°'s elBullifoundation

For groundbreaking chefs such as Ferran Adri√°, cooking has reached a level of complexity where science, chemistry, and technology intersect with immense creativity and imagination. Adri√°'s latest 'Sapiens' volume takes readers on a compelling journey to better understand the relationship between the human race and the process of preparing food. Packed with images from Adri√°'s legendary restaurant elBulli, his unique personal sketches, and explanatory diagrams that are used in his lectures, this book revolutionizes the way we look at how we prepare what we eat.

“Ferran Adrià is the most important, idolised, controversial and written-about chef of the last century.” —British GQ

"Strikingly illustrated...scholarly appreciation of cooking." —Publishers Weekly Online