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Defining the foodie – an interview with BCN Foodie Guide
I never get tired of talking about food, especially when it is with the BCN Foodie Guide. The full Spanish version is available here, or an English translation below: Tell us who you are and what...
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Bourdainisms. My top 10 Anthony Bourdain quotes
The man that made chef whites filthy has been a force in and out of the kitchen for the last two decades. In 2007 he published Kitchen Confidential and gave us all an insight into the dark and comical...
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In and out of the kitchen, Creativity is Contagious.
“Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun” — Albert Einstein Contagion (the blockbuster movie featuring Jason Bourne and Goop Paltrow) tells the story of a worldwide epidemic that spreads uncontrollably...
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Happiness comes in Salty Water.
Trust no one unless you have eaten salt with him. (Cicero) I live for that moment as you near the end of an evening and your palette compresses an entire menu into a small nod of gluttonic content. The...
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Chef 3.0: True Autonomy in the Kitchen thanks to the Sharing Economy
My menu planning typically begins while getting lost in this city that never fails to inspire (despite being seasonally rammed with tourists that give new meaning to the term gold-toothed Russians and...
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Papalosophy…more than just a vague collection of fish ties and clichéd quotes…
It’s hard to describe the feeling of finally getting my hands on this dream. And particularly hard to describe it while balancing on a roof on a windy Barcelona afternoon… Finally Papalosophy is more...
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Creating the flavours of Spain on a Plate: Spinach, Saffron, Pimentón,...
A while ago I was asked to come up with a dish that truly represented the bold simplicity that I know Spain to be. Clearing my head of the vacant Instagrammable fluff that fills the cool urban...
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How to become the ideal EATER
What does it mean to eat? Should we be simply satisfying and sustaining? Or should we aim for gratification and gluttony? I tried to answer that question in my cookbook Papalosophy and realised I...
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How people eat around the world
There are some projects that I wish I could dedicate my life to. Because nothing fascinates me more than understanding exactly how alike, and different we truly are. As a cooker/eater and having...
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Making Monte Carlo, The First Casino Resort
Any chef knows that running a restaurant is a little bit like running a casino -high stakes winner takes all decadence and risk on the outside, and a hard grind of lots of moving parts under the...
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Releasing my top 10 Tapas of 2016 from my Spanish Cookbook: Papalosophy
I was working in grey London when I started writing Papaplosophy. And it’s safe to say that daydreaming about the tapas of Spain helped me survive those days. Because the tapa is so much more than that...
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The Spanish Know How to Fry Eggs.
There is a reason Unicode chose the fried egg as the emoticon that best represents this perfect protein. Creamy white combined with rich and silky golden yolk and, if you are lucky, crispy golden edges...
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Discovering Mojo Picón, the most delicious sauce from the Canary Islands
My first trip to the Canary Islands was part of a desperate escape from my first miserably long grey London winter; there are only so many times a thick pint of Guinness and some kind of roasted animal...
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Barcelona is DELICIOUS, but not everyone goes home hungry for more
Barcelona might not show up on those global city ranking lists that consulting firms and banks like to trot out to prove they aren’t all just all evil corps trying to keep us in the system (I’ve...
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Food is not what you cook, but what you make others taste.
Art is not what you see, but what you make other see. (Degas) And so food is not what you cook, but what you make others taste. Food art is not what you find under #theartofplating or on some Buzzfeed...
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