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Catalan is a tradition that earlier than the potato arrived had an awesome recipe ebook, the Feel Soví (1324) That nonetheless makes good learn (“ The meat is perullad with bacon and with different good erbes. And as it is going to be perbull, it’s all time lengthy; and mith hous and of fine spices, and years, and pancies, and that it was good ”). In the identical century, Eiximenis (1330-1409) wrote that “the Catalan nation was exemplary (…) in honest food and in temperate drinking” and Barcelona was populated with notable individuals “of great weight and strong nourished, especially in the throat”. With this background and many who could possibly be discovered, it’s logical that contemporaries have good gastronomic literature and, much more essential, wonderful locations to go for a meal.

TV3 has premiered this week the documentary that introduced this 12 months’s Docs Festival on the restaurant Enjoy and the trio of cooks that has raised it to the pantheon of culinary divinities. Obviously they don’t exit of nowhere and the massive names in Catalan delicacies have a filmography that’s starting to be dense. The Roca brothers (Chef’s Daily: Scotland, from life to the plate …), Ferran Adrià (El Bulli, History of a Sueño, the Bulli Cooking in Progress …), Carme Ruscalleda (Sinfonía de Estrellas …), the Torres brothers (La Nave de los Sueños), and so forth. The one devoted to having fun with is entitled clean and is a manufacturing of 3cat and abacus directed by Alan Fàbregas and Ramon Pardina.

The climax comes with the election in Las Vegas of the restaurant as one of the best on this planet of 2024 and the cameras observe Eduard Xatruch, Mateu Casañas and Oriol Castro Anguniejats on the eve of the proclamation ceremony and completely happy later. Happy them, their group, households and colleagues pals (an admirable fraternity). But, besides to see the sink of feelings with which they reside, this isn’t essentially the most enticing half. You know the end result. The most notable of the documentary, along with the endearing conferences of the cooks with the mother and father, is to see the sacrifice that it has been troublesome for this Grand Prix.

In the movie – who doesn’t uncover something that Connaisseurs have no idea – they’re seen with their individuals on the Thursday assembly imagining and tasting new dishes (a pigeon cake or a millfullles with out flour …) with the fundamental precept that the usage of new strategies should additionally deliver recognizable tastes. In their palate laboratory they need a group with out inhibitions, who dare to suggest. All three bear in mind the stage of coaching {and professional} development, demanding, extending (Ferran Adrià himself admits), within the Bulli. His passionate dedication to discovery, innovation (yearly there should be sufficient dozens of recent dishes), clearly prices. Perhaps essentially the most talked about is the thanks to the household for tolerating many absences. It is a movie concerning the workshop of having fun with and the work that’s there till they’re used to serve. The documentary doesn’t clarify recipes (they’ve revealed a few books), doesn’t current the dishes of the letter or gossip by the room, the digicam would make prospects. This second half could be one other film. Going to take pleasure in is a superb expertise that, since they obtain you, is scripted within the millimeter with a service that doesn’t flash and a kitchen within the organized view with out sausage. The waiter tells you how one can put together and the way every dish ought to be eaten. And the shopper should heed the script. Watch out! In our case, a diner didn’t observe the instructions on how one can assault a well known declension of the fried egg, and the waiter returned as lightning to warn him: he was “losing the essence” of that consuming. He did it with severity, however excessive courtesy, sure. It is okay for the demand to succeed in the desk, as asking for a respect for creation.

What are Xatruch, Casañas and Castro pursuing with their inquiries? Castro mentioned plainly in an interview with Mar Rocabert: “We give joy, we enjoy people.”