Cover -- Experimental Dining -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Restaurants: elBulli, The Fat Duck, Noma and Alinea -- Philosophical Approach -- Food, Art and Performance -- Arguments and Structure of the Book -- 1. Preparation: The Creative World of the Restaurants -- Restaurant Philosophy -- Constructing the World -- Creative Methods and Approaches -- Technoemotional Cuisine -- Interlude 1 Progression: Italian Futurism and Technoemotional Cuisine -- 2. Presentation: Performances of the Restaurant -- Performing Front of House -- Reading the Menu -- Food Forms -- Interlude 2 Produced: Mediated Dining -- 3. Perception: Sensory and Sensual Experiences -- Immediacy -- Orality: Language -- Orality: Sex -- Culinary Deconstruction -- Interlude 3 Pop-Up: Food, Performance, Philosophy -- 4. Processing: Making Sense -- Making Sense -- Food Narratives -- Aesthetic Processing -- Interlude 4 Posterity: Documenting Experiences -- 5. Payoff: Political and Economic Frames of Experience -- Enjoyment and Excess -- Politics of the Seasonal and the Local -- Experiences -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.