2008. Doctor Honoris Causa in Aberdeen.
In the month of June, only six months after the conferral of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Chemistry Faculty of the University of Barcelona, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland decides to confer a similar degree on Ferran Adrià, following the proposal of Professor Christopher Fynsk of The Centre for Modern Thought. Fynsk who compares Adrià to Picasso and Miró for the importance of his creative expression, indicating that “Ferran is truly a genius, a thinker set to renew the connection between sensual and intellectual nourishment in a way that is changing forever our understanding of our relation to cooking and to eating”. |
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