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Lisa Abend

Lisa Abend
César Lucas Abreu

Lisa Abend

Lisa Abend is journalist based in Madrid. For the past three years, she has been Time magazine’s correspondent in Spain, where she writes about everything from international terrorism, to climate change, to immigration, to costumed debt collectors (with, needless to say, a fair number of bullfighting stories thrown in for good measure.) As a freelancer, she has written on learning the Basque language for The Atlantic; on volunteer bit torrent translators for Wired; on the plight of Roma women for Ms., on prime minister Zapatero’s republican upbringing for The American Prospect; on the recovery of the Iberian lynx for National Wildlife; and on the situation... Read full bio

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The Sorcerer's Apprentices will be released on February 07, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 07, 2012
The Sorcerer's Apprentices is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 07, 2012
The Sorcerer's Apprentices will be released on March 22, 2011 in
Mar 22, 2011
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Mar 22, 2011
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Chapter 1 from The Sorcerer's Apprentices
Mar 20, 2011

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Metro.co.uk, May 30, 2013
...book is very intimate and unexpected – the opposite to average, anonymous sports memoir. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices by Lisa Abend Of the 40 chefs who used to work at El Bulli, once considered the best restaurant in the world, 25 of them were...
MSN Entertainment, February 13, 2013
...Bulli: Cooking in Progress." David Wilson has penned a script about the restaurant and chef based on Lisa Abend's book "The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adria's elBulli." The film will be set in the restaurant's final year,...
AFAR, January 21, 2013
...it’s turning out fusion cuisine. And the landscape—all those fjords and mountains!—looks to be beyond spectacular. — Lisa Abend , who  got in deep with the revelers at Pamplona’s San Fermín festival in “ Spain Lets Loose .” Sarajevo ...
Metro.co.uk, May 30, 2013
...book is very intimate and unexpected – the opposite to average, anonymous sports memoir. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices by Lisa Abend Of the 40 chefs who used to work at El Bulli, once considered the best restaurant in the world, 25 of them were...
Canada Free Press, November 26, 2012
...the state debt gets larger, more austerity measures are required, and fewer resources exist to jump-start the economy. (Lisa Abend, Time World, October 31, 2012) Italy’s Prime Minister, Mario Monti, wants his country to be bailed out as well because...
AFAR, September 24, 2012
...AFAR contributing writer Lisa Abend talks to three of the world’s most talented chefs: Enrique Olvera (left) of Mexico City’s Pujol, Spain’s culinary wizard Ferran Adrià (center) of elBulli fame, and...
Rochester City Newspaper, August 8, 2012
...on the off-chance you’ve read it, this also happens to be where “Cooking in Progress” merges with Lisa Abend’s book “The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià’s elBulli.” Both the film and the book cover 2009,...
Rochester City Newspaper, August 8, 2012
...on the off-chance you’ve read it, this also happens to be where “Cooking in Progress” merges with Lisa Abend’s book “The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià’s elBulli.” Both the film and the book cover 2009,...