Sibling Revelry

BEHIND every successful man is - his brother?

You can't mention Albert Adria's name without instinctively appending it to his more famous sibling Ferran - the culinary king of the world in the years when his restaurant elBulli dominated the bucket lists of every crazed food-lover.

All the years that he toiled backstage as elBulli's head pastry chef and mastermind behind some of the funkier creations like Parmesan cheese foam, Mr Adria never felt any resentment towards Ferran for hogging the spotlight. "In fact, having people compare me to my brother is the best thing to happen to me," says the 48-year-old on a recent visit to Singapore, where he teamed up with chef Andre Chiang for a one-day-only, sold-out four hands event.