04-03-2015
The official trailer of El Somni, a project signed by the Roca brothers in Gerona and Catalan artist Franc Aleu, a comprehensive work which saw the 3 hermanos at work together with cooks, audio and video performers, composers, lyrical singers, musicians, photographers, poets, linguists, designers, painters, philosophers, artisans. A book summing up the development and the contents of the project was recently published
In 2 thousand and a few years, western gastronomy has never experienced the interests it has been subjected to in the past decade. Today, however, we have so distanced ourselves from the platonic edict (in essence: what we eat has to do with the second-rate parts of the human soul, something we are obliged to do, best not to analyse it too much) that suddenly each gesture each human being does at least twice a day, that is to say eat, has become profoundly interesting. Just like art, science, philosophy, topics that have always been noble.
Are the sense of touch, smell and taste reaching higher ranks, trying to conquest the throne on which sight and hearing rest? The answer is blowing in the wind. For now we can say that the number of multidisciplinary projects that aim at focusing not on scientists, artists or philosophers but on cuisine protagonists is growing. In this case, these are 3 brothers, the most famous hermanos in global fine dining: Joan, Josep and Jordi Roca, the vertexes of the El Celler de Can Roca triangle in Gerona.
The cover of El Somni. Book and dvd can be bought from Amazon for only 22.90 US Dollars
At the time, we announced the book, which was recently published (in English) by Mediapro (208 pages plus DVD, you can order it here). It’s an interesting narrative-photographic documentary that covers the genesis of this ambitious project, one act after the other (12 in total). In the cast, one can also find some famous supporters such as chef and friend Ferran Adrià, the great American scientist Harold McGee and the magnificent actress Freida Pinto.
Joan, Jordi and Josep Roca in an archive photo, Identità 2009
A 2-hour-long “meal” which can be experienced also thanks to the images in the DVD, with subtitles in 10 languages, so that everyone can understand the universal scope of the project, destined to be remembered as the opera prima from which the release of gastronomy over the arts began.
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born in Milan, 1973, freelance journalist, coordinator of Identità Golose World restaurant guidebook since 2007, he is a contributor for several magazines and teaches History of gastronomy and Culinary global trends into universities and institutes. twitter @gabrielezanatt instagram @gabrielezanatt
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