The chef behind Alinea and Next is the American culinary expert on Netflix’s cooking competition show
How the chef behind Alinea found his inspiration and opened a groundbreaking restaurant
Two Windy City icons, the Chicago-style hot dog and Grant Achatz’s Alinea, occupy opposite ends of the culinary spectrum. The dog started as simple sustenance for laborers, and Alinea is a Michelin three-star temple of modernist cuisine. But Achatz has found a way to bridge the gap.
Among his other innovations, Grant Achatz is a pioneer in menu typography. At Alinea, in Chicago, courses on his tasting menus used to be printed in a long, snaking column; sweeter dishes drifted out to the right margin and more savory ones swayed left.
The humble carrot. What can you do with a carrot? Well, if you're Dave Beran, executive chef of Next, an avant-garde restaurant in Chicago, you instruct farmers ...


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