美国国家公共电台 NPR Culinary Superstars Take Their Top-Rated Spanish Restaurant On The Road

Culinary Superstars Take Their Top-Rated Spanish Restaurant On The Road

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This summer, one of the world's top-rated restaurants is taking its kitchen on the road. It's a major logistical challenge, as you might imagine. The crew is cooking gourmet¹ pop-up meals in five cities over five weeks. They begin their tour today in Phoenix², where they'll stay for several days, before heading to San Francisco. To give you a preview of what to expect, our reporter Lauren Frayer joined them on their first leg of the tour in London.

(SOUNDBITE OF PAN SIZZLING)

LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE³: Beef cheeks sizzle in a pan, oysters⁴ float in melon puree and students at this London culinary school huddle⁵ around a stove in a kind of rapture⁶.

(APPLAUSE)

FRAYER: The visiting Roca brothers, Joan, Josep and Jordi, are like rock stars of international haute cuisine⁷, says Thomas Muza, a Polish chef, waiting in line to take a selfie with them.

THOMAS MUZA: It's just completely different level. It's past just cooking for the people. It's about creating things - unbelievable.

FRAYER: The Roca brothers are famous for fusing technology and food. They serve edible⁸ moss⁹ and pork disguised as fish. They often cook with blow torches. One signature dish is served under a glass dome¹⁰ filled with smoke. Their family restaurant in northeast Spain, El Celler de Can Roca, has three Michelin stars. A typical meal there will set you back several hundred dollars - if you can get a table. Reservations for all of this year sold out in just eight minutes online. This month, the restaurant is shut while the Rocas go on tour to London, Hong Kong, Phoenix, San Francisco and Santiago de Chile.

IGNACIO TENA RUBIO: Each time we change the city, that's an adventure. It's a new kitchen and new people to work with, new students. We don't even know where the spoons are.

FRAYER: Ignacio Tena Rubio works with BBVA, a Spanish bank sponsoring the tour. There's an entourage of 35 traveling sous chefs. Back home, the Rocas have a research center and a private farm. Here, they're huddled¹¹ into a small, sweltering hotel kitchen. Tena calls this the biggest logistical challenge ever attempted in the world of haute cuisine.

TENA RUBIO: Usually a high-end restaurant, they change the menu maybe one dish per year. We will have five different 20-dishes menus for five weeks. It's madness, you know?

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: The salmon¹² roe¹³ are for Scotland.

FRAYER: They choose local ingredients in every country. The Roca brothers are U.N. Goodwill¹⁴ ambassadors, supporting sustainable farming around the world.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Thank you, everyone, for attending.

FRAYER: On tour, these private dinners are free, but most of those invited are BBVA clients. The Roca brothers get to spread their recipes far from their home kitchen. Two lucky culinary students from each location will travel back to Spain with the brothers to work at their restaurant.

JOAN ROCA: (Speaking Spanish).

FRAYER: "It's a logistical challenge and a creative one," says Joan Roca, the oldest brother and head chef. "Even if you're one of the best restaurants in the world," he says, "you still need to get out of your house to learn and change." For NPR News, I'm Lauren Frayer in London.

1 gourmet   

n.食物品尝家；adj.出于美食家之手的

参考例句：

• What does a gourmet writer do? 美食评论家做什么？
• A gourmet like him always eats in expensive restaurants.像他这样的美食家总是到豪华的餐馆用餐。

2 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 oysters   

牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
• She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。

5 huddle   

vi.挤作一团；蜷缩；vt.聚集；n.挤在一起的人

参考例句：

• They like living in a huddle.他们喜欢杂居在一起。
• The cold wind made the boy huddle inside his coat.寒风使这个男孩卷缩在他的外衣里。

6 rapture   

n.狂喜；全神贯注；着迷；v.使狂喜

参考例句：

• His speech was received with rapture by his supporters.他的演说受到支持者们的热烈欢迎。
• In the midst of his rapture,he was interrupted by his father.他正欢天喜地，被他父亲打断了。

7 cuisine   

n.烹调，烹饪法

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• This restaurant is renowned for its cuisine.这家餐馆以其精美的饭菜而闻名。

8 edible   

n.食品，食物；adj.可食用的

参考例句：

• Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation.我们靠着野菜才没被饿死。
• This kind of mushroom is edible,but that kind is not.这种蘑菇吃得，那种吃不得。

9 moss   

n.苔，藓，地衣

参考例句：

• Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
• He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。

10 dome   

n.圆屋顶，拱顶

参考例句：

• The dome was supported by white marble columns.圆顶由白色大理石柱支撑着。
• They formed the dome with the tree's branches.他们用树枝搭成圆屋顶。

11 huddled   

挤在一起（huddle的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
• We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。

12 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

13 roe   

n.鱼卵；獐鹿

参考例句：

• We will serve smoked cod's roe at the dinner.宴会上我们将上一道熏鳕鱼子。
• I'll scramble some eggs with roe?我用鱼籽炒几个鸡蛋好吗？

14 goodwill   

n.善意，亲善，信誉，声誉

参考例句：

• His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里对所有人都充满着爱心。
• We paid ￡10,000 for the shop,and ￡2000 for its goodwill.我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店，两千英镑买下了它的信誉。