elBulli: When Cooking Met Science | Spanish B2
Read a Spanish B2 account of elBulli, its scientific department, spherical caviar tool, archive and Harvard course.
elBulli: cuando la cocina dialogó con la ciencia
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What you'll learn
Innovation and research vocabulary, concession, correction, past perfect, imperfect and conditional
A B2 Spanish article traces elBulli from Ferran Adrià's arrival to its dialogue with scientists, the 2003 caviar tool, the 1,846-entry catalogue and Science & Cooking at Harvard.
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Phrases for training
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se resume su trabajo con la etiqueta
newhis work is summed up with the label
The phrase says that a complex body of work is reduced to one name.
Useful when discussing labels that simplify a subject.
una búsqueda puramente culinaria
newa purely culinary search
It describes exploration driven by cooking itself.
Useful for distinguishing practical creation from scientific planning.
a gran escala
newon a large scale
It means producing or doing something in a large quantity.
Common in descriptions of production and organisation.
una figura central de la cocina clásica
newa central figure in classical cuisine
It identifies someone with major importance in a field.
Useful in biographies and cultural history.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
efímero
efímero
short-lived
Something that exists for only a short time.
A precise adjective for temporary projects or events.
sistematizar
sistematizar
to systematise
To organise work according to a clear system.
Useful for research, management and process descriptions.
utensilios
utensilios
tools or utensils
Objects used to perform practical tasks, especially in a kitchen.
Important vocabulary for cooking and workshops.
reproducir
reproducir
to reproduce
Here it means to make the same result repeatedly.
Useful when describing repeatable processes.
archivo
archivo
archive
An organised collection of documents and records.
Useful for history, research and institutions.
vanguardia
vanguardia
avant-garde
The most innovative part of an artistic or professional field.
Useful when discussing innovation in culture.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
aunque esa expresión no cuenta toda la historia
aunque esa expresión no cuenta toda la historia
although that expression does not tell the whole story
Aunque introduces a limitation or contrast with the previous idea.
Useful for qualifying a claim without rejecting it completely.
no nacieron de un plan científico, sino de una búsqueda puramente culinaria
no nacieron de un plan científico, sino de una búsqueda puramente culinaria
they did not arise from a scientific plan, but from a purely culinary search
No... sino... corrects the first possibility and replaces it with another.
Useful for making a precise correction.
había comenzado en 1996
había comenzado en 1996
had begun in 1996
Había comenzado is the past perfect and places one past event before another past moment.
Useful for organising a historical sequence.
El utensilio permitía reproducir
El utensilio permitía reproducir
The tool made it possible to reproduce
Permitía is imperfect because it describes an ongoing capability in the past.
Useful for describing how a past tool functioned.
¿Qué tradición de tu cocina combinarías con una herramienta nueva?
¿Qué tradición de tu cocina combinarías con una herramienta nueva?
Which tradition from your cuisine would you combine with a new tool?
Combinarías is the conditional and asks about a hypothetical choice.
Useful for discussing imagined decisions.
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