Final Cookbook Q: El Celler De Can Roca, anyone have it?

robert.c.brown15

I see an English edition is out. Does anyone have it? Thoughts?

p.s. I bought Alleno's Ma Cuisine Francaise and it arrives tomorrow. 782 pages, more than 500 recipes, all for $150. Pretty excited.

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tshewman

Cool! Would really need to brush up on my french.

robert.c.brown15

I can't read French either, but Google Translate is fantastic. The app on my phone even can use the camera to translate the pages on the fly. Kinda scary how amazing it works.

In the past I have found dishes that look great based on their picture and name and then translate them individually. Kinda tedious, but I only do dishes that I'm initially interested in doing. It would be an entirely different thing attempting to translate the entire book.

Matthew_Snyder_68770

I have the Tickets cookbook.

Can't read a single word in it, but that's cool. lol

tshewman

Lol!!

robert.c.brown15

Just got Alleno's book. It is ridiculous. Heavy as shit, came in a thick slip case. Over 780 pages. Huge pages. The amazon box came with a warning sticker on it because it was so heavy.

I just flipped through every page and it is incredible. It is basically every recipe from his YAM magazines. Amazing dishes. Amazing techniques. Over 500 recipes. Over 1,500 photos. It is almost too much. Every plate is gorgeous. It is pretty amazing this book exists as it really is an all encompassing account of his cooking.

The French thing is mildly annoying now. Really wish it was in English and will definitely buy it if it ever comes out in English, but I'm going to be fine. I've already found a few things I am going to cook and it's just going to require me to sit down on my computer and type the French out into a translator. Not a huge deal.

robert.c.brown15

So I've looked more into El Celler De Can Roca's cookbook and found some example recipes online. It isn't quite what i was looking for. I didn't realize the extent they go to with using molecular ingredients. I don't have a problem with them, but I'm not quite that into them as others may be. I don't know a ton about the Mugaritz cookbook, but it reminded me of that. Every element seemed to have a molecular ingredient and right now my pantry isn't ready to handle all of that.

artstype

what app is that?

robert.c.brown15

Google translate

ttpoker

If you eat at Tickets, they sell an English version of the book on site. I could not find this book in English any other way. I refer to the Tickets cookbook as much as I refer to my elBulli '05-11 library - perhaps even more frequently. Especially for select items such as oysters, it cant be beat. Amazingly, most of the staff featured in the photos of the book still work there - nobody with 1/2 a brain views Tickets as a temporary job, they view working with Albert Adria as a career in itself!

ttpoker

Did you notice that Jordi released a new cookbook this fall featuring nothing but the deserts of el Celler de Can Roca?

robert.c.brown15

Yes