Ferran Adria, one of the world's most innovative pastry chefs, was coming to celebrate his 40th birthday at elBulli, and they needed to make a cake for the occasion. Albert Adrià, Ferran's younger brother and former top dog in the elBulli dessert department, would normally have been an option. Except that Albert himself was coming to dinner.
I am struggling with a spring fashioned from what appears to be a tight coil of wire, but which has been manufactured, surprisingly, from virgin olive...