Ferran Adrià won the Chefs’ Choice Award in 2005 Ferran Adrià won the Chef of the Decade Award in 2010. His ground-breaking restaurant had changed the future course of gastronomy, giving birth to revolutionary techniques such as foams and spherification, and creating dishes that sparked many copycats, like the famous liquid olive. Along with his brother Albert, the pastry chef, Adrià became a legend of the cooking world, his rise to fame coinciding with Spain’s gradual recognition as a global gastronomic force to rival France.