Word: fizzed
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From the first sip of the proffered aperitif at El Bulli--a frozen gin with hot lemon fizz--you know you're in for something different. Ferran Adria has won the adulation of food critics and cooks by whipping up startling combinations of texture, temperature and taste: bite-size cuttlefish ravioli that explode in a burst of coconut and ginger, soft-boiled quail egg with a crispy caramel crust, a polenta of frozen powdered Parmesan cheese, almond ice cream on a swirl of garlic oil and balsamic vinegar...
...street. In one recurring bit, he would pick up a copy of the New York Daily News, don a cornball press hat and read angry letters to the editor, with all the vehemence the unseen correspondents would have wanted. He loved concocting wild physical bits, which got their fizz from the sight of this urbane, bespectacled, Brooks Brothers gentleman jammed into a pair of tights on a trapeze or dunked in a vat of Jell-O. "Can you imagine what people just tuning in now are thinking?" he liked to say when the chaos was at its height. That...