9 Summer Reads

A hard day on the dock (with all that lotion applying and cooling off) will seem like a cakewalk after reading The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adria's elBulli. The book is a thorough and detailed account of the unpaid apprentice chefs at Spain's elBulli, one of the most celebrated restaurants in the world. Named the top restaurant out of 50 other global challengers for a record five times, elBulli will close permanently in July 2011, and while a visit may no longer be possible, a literary taste via the book still is.