The magical world of the gastronomical lab can render taste buds stunned, says Joe McNamee, but is it really where the future of food lies?

Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli was regarded by many as the greatest restaurant in the world. Food writer Michelle Darmody travels to Barcelona to sample his brand new venture, Tickets.

KITTY TRAVERS loves ice cream. When she was little, her mum found her rummaging in a bin at the circus licking ice cream wrappers, oblivious of the clowns and trapeze.

Richard Fitzpatrick combined his love of both writing and soccer in a book. Here he explains how he went about doing it

AFTER Christmas I’ve got a whole stack of cook books with lots of tantalising recipes to try — so much talent out there.

AT the height of his creative powers, Spanish masterchef Ferran Adrià recognised no culinary boundaries.

TWENTY YEARS ago, anyone who was anyone in food went to France.

Newly released from Anita Shreve, Lisa Abend and Brian O’Connor

THERE’S fashion in food just like everything else. Foodies are always intrigued by the latest trends on the gastronomic circuit.

I’VE just spent a mind-blowing three days in Spain at the third International Gastronomy Summit, Madrid Fusion 2005.