A pretty lunatic title for a style of cookery, but I think the phenomenon is interesting, partly because its so decadent: food that isn't cooked to nourish but to amuse, excite, tittilate.
The two big names are El Bulli (the first review I read of it I read I took to be a Chris Morris outing) and the Fat Duck. I ate at Bels Diner in bristol which does something similar: Native Oysters with Tomato Ice Cream, an espresso cup of white onion jelly with parmesan air.
If the ongoing media fixation on cookery wasn't quite so pervasive, perhaps so-called Molecular Gastronomes like Heston Blumenthal would be a very compelling proposition.
Is there a Dissensus on this?
The two big names are El Bulli (the first review I read of it I read I took to be a Chris Morris outing) and the Fat Duck. I ate at Bels Diner in bristol which does something similar: Native Oysters with Tomato Ice Cream, an espresso cup of white onion jelly with parmesan air.
If the ongoing media fixation on cookery wasn't quite so pervasive, perhaps so-called Molecular Gastronomes like Heston Blumenthal would be a very compelling proposition.
Is there a Dissensus on this?