About 10,000 EURO worth of ham

June 10, 2004

An image of the ham fridge at one of Barcelona’s bistros. This is clearly the ideal way to store the serrano hams until the neat shavings land on a plate near your bread.
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Camper’s Flagship Restaurant

June 7, 2004

The wall mural menu at ‘Foodball’. These last days in Barcelona I had the opportunity to meet up with designer Marti Guixé to talk about our food-related projects. He showed me the newly opened Camper flagship restaurant that he designed.

It’s all about balls.
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Rhubarb Marmalade Terrine

June 1, 2004

Because I grew up in a California household in which the sweet granules were often referred to as ‘White Death’, I sometimes encounter a little psychological barrier walking 500 metres to the market and dishing out 1 euro 40 to buy some sugar. Meanwhile, I seem to be the only one in my family to have taken the ‘White Death’ bit seriously.

Luise coming to dinner and I’m plum out of sugar because I used it all up last week making a massive batch of orange marmalade. My situation is not unlike the Weapons of Mass Destruction Scenario that was plaguing ‘that Man’. I have lots of marmalade, and I know that it’s just chock full of sugar because I put the sugar there in the first place.

I served this Rhubarb Marmalade Terrine with a stiff hangop (joghurt from which the whey has been drained) sweetened liberally with THAT’s RIGHT homemade marmalade! I spiced the hangop with saffran and rosewater and spooned it into quenelles to serve next to the Rhu.
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