Word: aioli
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...white, from the rectangular tables to the window blinds. The wait staff is all business (as is most of the clientele). The food, accelerating in flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adrià's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot jam, baked skate with clam aioli, smoked beef with "ancient mustard" foam. In cooking as in science, not all lab experiments succeed: an unappealing appetizer of Iberian porkpie with truffled duck liver consisted mostly of morsels of fat. But considering the rich and varied fare dished out, the fact that we didn't feel bloated...
...encouraging, down-to-earth tone make it easy for even the most tentative cook to do the same. The recipes are for creative, homestyle foods with innovative gourmet touches like adding juniper berries to potato salad. The book is dotted with amusing stories, like the time Bass made aioli for her idol Julia Child, and one about how a sister's boyfriend ended up being Serena's first husband...