Comments on: End of the Road for El Bulli? http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli Food - Photography & More Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:51:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25160 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:02:45 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25160 Cid I think he's burnt out. Maybe he's questioning the point of it all. Don't we all now and then? Miles Cid
I think he’s burnt out. Maybe he’s questioning the point of it all. Don’t we all now and then?

Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25157 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:56:16 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25157 Miles, I don't buy it..... why would you close a restaurant that's raking in the money just because you might be fed up with the menu. Surely the business man in him would say someone else can run it while I take two years off and rethink the direction? Maybe it's not making any money and Adria's spin-off products aren't enough to keep it going? The sort of highly skilled workforce necessary can't be easy to find and perhaps they are no longer willing to work free of charge as some were reputedly. I may never get the chance to sample his amazing MG menu in such a glamorous setting :( Wonder what he'll tackle next? Cid Miles,

I don’t buy it….. why would you close a restaurant that’s raking in the money just because you might be fed up with the menu. Surely the business man in him would say someone else can run it while I take two years off and rethink the direction? Maybe it’s not making any money and Adria’s spin-off products aren’t enough to keep it going?

The sort of highly skilled workforce necessary can’t be easy to find and perhaps they are no longer willing to work free of charge as some were reputedly.

I may never get the chance to sample his amazing MG menu in such a glamorous setting :( Wonder what he’ll tackle next?

Cid

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25152 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:25:28 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25152 Laura, A great comment, I think you make some very valid comments. If you look at what he has created along with a handful of others than it is quite something. If on the other you look at menus created by less reknowned exponents then something of a monster seems to have been created. I get brochures sent to me offering to supply me all kinds of gums, powders, stabilisers etc but I. like 99% of all of chefs have no understanding of these chemicals whatsoever. I don't think it's enough to know that 'this will make a hot jelly' for example. I come across a lot of young chefs who are hell bent on this type of 'food'....my argument to them is that they should look far closer at the natural foods around them and understand that before trying to be a bit part scientist. I am sure when Adria see's these poor imitations he must cringe. Miles Laura,
A great comment, I think you make some very valid comments. If you look at what he has created along with a handful of others than it is quite something. If on the other you look at menus created by less reknowned exponents then something of a monster seems to have been created.
I get brochures sent to me offering to supply me all kinds of gums, powders, stabilisers etc but I. like 99% of all of chefs have no understanding of these chemicals whatsoever. I don’t think it’s enough to know that ‘this will make a hot jelly’ for example.

I come across a lot of young chefs who are hell bent on this type of ‘food’….my argument to them is that they should look far closer at the natural foods around them and understand that before trying to be a bit part scientist.
I am sure when Adria see’s these poor imitations he must cringe.

Miles

]]> by: Laura http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25147 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:30:16 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25147 Adria has got something else up his sleeve. . . Creative people need breaks to nurture new ideas. (He's only 45 - Rod) That said, I'm not sure I'm sorry to see the end of this trend. Frankly, I think it is already dying a slow death and Adria is bailing early. As a scientist, I feel a bit uneasy when non-scientists adopt scientific ideas. Frankly, there is usually a lot of misunderstanding. There is nothing wrong with a discipline being considered an "art". Arts have a great deal of knowledge and experience needed to execute them as well. Returning to the art of cooking wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing at least in my mind. I think MG has been a useful step - but it time to give feeling and intuition and experience a say again and put the analytical approach aside - at least for the moment. L Adria has got something else up his sleeve. . .

Creative people need breaks to nurture new ideas. (He’s only 45 - Rod)

That said, I’m not sure I’m sorry to see the end of this trend. Frankly, I think it is already dying a slow death and Adria is bailing early.

As a scientist, I feel a bit uneasy when non-scientists adopt scientific ideas. Frankly, there is usually a lot of misunderstanding.

There is nothing wrong with a discipline being considered an “art”. Arts have a great deal of knowledge and experience needed to execute them as well. Returning to the art of cooking wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing at least in my mind.

I think MG has been a useful step - but it time to give feeling and intuition and experience a say again and put the analytical approach aside - at least for the moment.

L

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25144 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:05:49 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25144 Rod, You're probably right, he's in his fifties and working fifteen hours per day...can't carry on like that. Miles Rod,
You’re probably right, he’s in his fifties and working fifteen hours per day…can’t carry on like that.

Miles

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25142 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:35:56 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/end-of-the-road-for-el-bulli#comment-25142 Miles, I read this and could see his point - the amount of work and pressure etc. I'd also bet that he doesn't end up making the kind of money he ought to. I don't say he doesn't make money just that in most professions those at the very top earn a fortune and I suspect he may be at a point were he thinks I don't need this any more and I can make just as much without killing myself Best Rod Miles,
I read this and could see his point - the amount of work and pressure etc.
I’d also bet that he doesn’t end up making the kind of money he ought to.
I don’t say he doesn’t make money just that in most professions those at the very top earn a fortune and I suspect he may be at a point were he thinks I don’t need this any more and I can make just as much without killing myself

Best
Rod

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