FINANCIAL TIMES HOW TO SPEND IT – A MULTISENSORY JOURNEY INTO THE SCIENCE OF FLAVOUR

A MULTISENSORY JOURNEY INTO THE SCIENCE OF FLAVOUR

From invoking the gods to audio garnishes, Kitchen Theory’s menu is a witty excursion into the world of modernist cuisine

JANUARY 19 2018 / BILL KNOTT

It is now 20 years since elBulli, Ferran Adrià’s dazzlingly ground-breaking restaurant in northern Spain, gained its third Michelin star. And 1997 was the first time I visited The Fat Duck, in Bray, the restaurant that launched the career of Heston Blumenthal: two years later, it was awarded the first of its three stars. Not bad for an old pub with an outside loo.

These two pioneering chefs took new equipment, ingredients and techniques, many gleaned from industrial food production, and applied them to a new kind of haute cuisine. Their ideas became hugely influential: soon foams, jellies and spherification were all the rage, and flasks of liquid nitrogen adorned every table.

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