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Serious Reads: Life, on the Line, by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas

Few chefs have caught the media's attention as powerfully as Grant Achatz, chef/owner of Alinea restaurant in Chicago. His food is inventive and constantly surprising, and Alinea was titled the Best Restaurant in North America by Gourmet in 2006, the seventh best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine in 2010, and Achatz received the James Beard award for Outstanding Chef in 2008—all before he hit 40. But the onslaught of accolades became near-irrelevant when, in 2007, Achatz was diagnosed with stage-four squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth.

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2 Comments | Posted by Leah Douglas, April 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Tagged: book reviews, books, Grant Achatz, Life on the Line, memoirs, Nick Kokonas, Serious Reads

Comment of the Day: I Wonder If Crucial Detail Makes Curtains

"You know... we do read these sorts of comments. Look for the chefs to be waving to you tonight." —Alinea partner Nick Kokonas, responding to serious eater Laurs87, who can see into the restaurant's kitchen from her apartment...

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1 Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: Alinea, Comment of the Day, Nick Kokonas