Bam! How Culinary Culture Became a Pop Phenomenon

Bam! How Culinary culture became a pop phenomenon
Bernat Armangue / AP

2004
More than 1 million people try to get a table at El Bulli, Ferran Adrià's 50—seat restaurant in Spain, which is open just six months out of the year.

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