The Food Chain is a weekly series structured around a simple idea: the chef profiled this week selects the chef profiled the next. First up? The godfather of modernist cuisine.
The old travel cliche was that to know where to eat well in a new town, ask a cabby. That’s often a decent enough approach, but the truer adage is almost too obvious to say out loud: if you want to eat well, follow the chefs. Having eaten with chefs across the world for the past few decades, I’ve never had a bad meal when a cook I respect is picking the place.
The Food Chain takes this principle to a global level. The chef profiled this week recommends the chef profiled the next, setting off a movable feast of ever-expanding proportions. We have no idea where this will take us—yakitori master in Akita? hairy crab whisperer in Shanghai? battle-tested nonna in Calabria?—and that’s exactly the point. We do know that each of these dispatches will make for good reading and even better eating.
There’s a reason we’re starting the Food Chain with Ferran Adrià. In the trickle-down culture of cooking influence, no single chef has had a deeper impact on the way the world eats than the godfather of modernist cuisine. And so the journey of a million calories begins with a single question: Where do you like to eat, Ferran? To find the answer, and all that waits beyond it, I’ll turn it over to good friend and R&K contributor Rafael Tonon. — Matt Goulding
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