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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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El Bulli is voted best restaurant in world – again
El Bulli is voted best restaurant in world – again
11 April 2006 BARCELONA — El Bulli, the haute cuisine eaterie run by chef Ferran Adriá, has been voted the best restaurant in the world again. An international jury, selected by the British magazine Restaurant, said El Bulli was the best place to eat on the planet for the second time. El Bulli, which only has 50 places and is permanently booked out with up to 400,000 applications for a place from all over the world each year, was opened in 1981 at Roses, near Girona in Catalonia. Adriá says of El Bulli: "It is not a restaurant, it is place for investigation." For the Catalan chef, the restaurant is a way of "seeing how far we can take cooking". The restaurant is only open for six months of the year and an average meal costs from EUR 150. Adriá said one way to reduce demand would be to raise the price to EUR 1,000 per person. But this would be against his principles because he does not want haute cuisine to be considered elitist. Adriá has worked with 20 charities to spread the use of haute cuisine ingredients to the Third World. He says he only gets angry when he is attacked for charging EUR 200 per meal while people are starving in the world. Adriá, who, has been awarded three Michelin stars, spends six months of the year dreaming up new recipes at his 'laboratory' in Barcelona. [Copyright EFE with Expatica] Source: http://www.expatica.com/source/site_...rld+%96+again+
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Re: El Bulli is voted best restaurant in world – again
I can attest that pretty well. I had a meal there once! It was so damn fantastic! Lucky me I wasn't the one paying.
 But really, if you appreciate a good meal and have the means to go there and pay for it, it's just amazing, I can tell it will be the best thing you will ever try -- regarding food, that is. 
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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Wow, Johannes, you belong to the nomenclatura.
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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So much for being a VIP.
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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Everyone knows by now that the Scots perfected haute cuisine in the mid-90's with their deep fried Mars Bar containing enough calories to keep you living for the next 6 months without food. True, it does raise your chance of a massive heart attack by 400%, but that's a small price to pay.
These guys are obviously wasting their time
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
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 BTW, how did you eat it? With sugar or salt?
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
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I boiled the oats on milk with a pinch of salt.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.' We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006
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And with sugar, it's the English way?
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006
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