All of this was supposed to be a conversation, but it ended up being a monologue. Geniuses have it made. They grab the ball, or the spoon, and don't let go. In this case, and as it has been done for many years, removed from the stove, What Ferran Adrià barely wanted to share was the microphone, which he practically denied to the companion in hardship who was supposed to talk with him, the theoretical physicist and expert in the history of cuisine, the Oxford doctoral student Javier Maurino-Alperovich.