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Eating
Barcelona has a celebrated food scene fuelled by a combination of world-class
chefs, imaginative recipes and magnificent ingredients fresh from farms and the
sea. Catalan culinary masterminds like Ferran Adrià and Carles Abellan have be-
come international icons, reinventing the world of haute cuisine, while classic old-
world Catalan recipes continue to earn accolades in dining rooms and tapas bars
across the city.
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New Catalan Cuisine
Avant-garde chefs have made Catalonia famous throughout the world for their food laborat-
ories, their commitment to food as art and their crazy riffs on the themes of traditional local
cooking.
Here the notion of gourmet cuisine is deconstructed as chefs transform liquids and solid
foods into foams, create 'ice cream' of classic ingredients by means of liquid nitrogen,
freeze-dry foods to make concentrated powder versions and employ spherification to create
unusual and artful creations. This alchemical cookery is known as molecular gastronomy, and
invention is the keystone of this technique.
