My friend Roland is going to El Bulli next month. I am jealous. What is widely regarded as the world's greatest restaurant sits in a small village in Spain. It is owned and chefed by Ferran Adria, who is maybe the most innovative chef ever. I am NOT a fan of super-clever fancy pants food. I do not want to eat tuna cotton candy. I do not want to eat foams of all sorts and strange emulsions of this, which looks like that, and tastes like something altogether different. This is precisely what Chef Adria does. EXCEPT, that absolutely everyone that I know and respect in the food world says that the guy deconstructs everything you think a meal is and completely disarms you with his prodigious creativity. Strangely, this seems to be it's own kind of soul food. Now we're talking. Anything THAT creative, and I'm in. Bourdain did a great hour show about El Bulli and showcased the super-secret lab in Barcelona where chefs, chemists and an industrial designer all work to blow your mind. The place is only open 6 months out of the year, and you have to reserve a full year in advance (if you can get in.) And finally this mind blowing stat: the restaurant holds only 50 people, and there are 50 chefs. Holy cow. Roland, please take me with you?????