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We're no strangers to El Bulli, the restaurant/lab of Ferran Adria, but since it is highly unlikely that I will ever get there to try it myself (I don't can't fly), I resign myself to reading about others' experiences and drooling over the food porn. Clotilde of Chocolate and Zucchini made a recent trip to the restaurant, and recounts the story of her six-hour, 35-course meal there. Of course, the most important thing is that she snapped a photo of every delicious, sometimes disturbingly scientific, course. Clotilde also gives some practical tips at the end of her post about costs, making reservations, getting to Roses, Spain where the restaurant is located, and lodging.

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The people of France are eating less bread than they did in decades past, according to a recent Reuters story. At the turn of the century, the average French person consumed a little more than a pound of bread per day. That figure is now down to a little over five ounces of bread per day, less than the average bread consumption for people from Germany and Italy. Still, the decline seems to have steadied, with some French bakeries bolstering their sales with loaves made of more traditional ingredients. Clotilde over at Chocolate and Zucchini posted about these "baguettes de tradition" a few weeks ago.