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# Alinea

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## Description

The debut cookbook from the restaurant Gourmet magazine named the best in the country. A pioneer in American cuisine, chef Grant Achatz represents the best of the molecular gastronomy movement--brilliant fundamentals and exquisite taste paired with a groundbreaking approach to new techniques and equipment. ALINEA showcases Achatz's cuisine with more than 100 dishes (totaling 600 recipes) and 600 photographs presented in a deluxe volume. Three feature pieces frame the book: Michael Ruhlman considers Alinea's role in the global dining scene, Jeffrey Steingarten offers his distinctive take on dining at the restaurant, and Mark McClusky explores the role of technology in the Alinea kitchen. Buyers of the book will receive access to a website featuring video demonstrations, interviews, and an online forum that allows readers to interact with Achatz and his team. "Achatz is something new on the national culinary landscape: a chef as ambitious as Thomas Keller who wants to make his mark not with perfection but with constant innovation . . . Get close enough to sit down and allow yourself to be teased, challenged, and coddled by Achatz's version of this kind of cooking, and you can have one of the most enjoyable culinary adventures of your life." --Corby Kummer, senior editor of Atlantic Monthly "Someone new has entered the arena. His name is Grant Achatz, and he is redefining the American restaurant once again for an entirely new generation . . . Alinea is in perpetual motion; having eaten here once, you can't wait to come back, to see what Achatz will come up with next." --GourmetReviews & AwardsJames Beard Foundation Cookbook Award Finalist: Cooking from a professional Point of View Category James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef Award! "Even if your kitchen isn't equipped with a paint-stripping heat gun, thermocirculator, or refractometer, and you're only vaguely aware that chefs use siphons and foams in contemporary cooking, you can enjoy this daring cookbook from Grant Achatz of the Chicago restaurant Alinea.. . . While the recipes can hardly become part of your everday cooking, this book is far too interesting to be left on the coffee table. As you read, a question emerges: Is Alinea's food art? . . . I go a little further, describing Achatz with a word that he would probably never use to describe himself: avant-garde, as it defined art movements at the beginning of the last century--planned, self-concious, and structured attempts to provoke and shake the status quo. Just as with those artists, the results are not necessarily as interesting as the intentions and concepts behind them. In this sense, this volume constitutes a full-blown although not threatening manifesto."—Art of Eating

Review: libro de excelente calidad para amantes de cocina - the book is beatiful!
Review: Alinea is the best kitchen in the US-This book captures it - I had the pleasure of dining at Alinea in June of 09. My son requested this as his graduation present from U Chicago Law School. I have eaten at the finest restaurants around the world and all I can say is Alinea is in a class by itself. I was given a short tour of the kitchen afterwards. It made me think of NASA. If you are a foodie this is Mecca. The book is an astonishingly beautiful coffee table class book. The size, photography, design, and production conjures up a fine art book. I have been a serious amateur chef for nearly 40 years and what is very clear is that this is not a book for beginners. It assumes a fairly high level of skill and familiarity with advanced practices. That said, this is a treasure trove of innovation and methods to challenge the skills and imagination of anyone who loves to cook. The only other book I think it compares to is The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller. Both of these chefs rank amongst the top innovators in the world of fine cuisine. If you really want to push yourself as a chef buy this book. If you simply want an astonishingly beautiful coffee table conversation piece buy this book. Whatever you do make sure dining at Alinea is on your "Bucket List."

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #182,028 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #660 in U.S. Regional Cooking, Food & Wine |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 879 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ libro de excelente calidad para amantes de cocina
*by M***A on January 30, 2026*

the book is beatiful!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alinea is the best kitchen in the US-This book captures it
*by R***S on February 24, 2010*

I had the pleasure of dining at Alinea in June of 09. My son requested this as his graduation present from U Chicago Law School. I have eaten at the finest restaurants around the world and all I can say is Alinea is in a class by itself. I was given a short tour of the kitchen afterwards. It made me think of NASA. If you are a foodie this is Mecca. The book is an astonishingly beautiful coffee table class book. The size, photography, design, and production conjures up a fine art book. I have been a serious amateur chef for nearly 40 years and what is very clear is that this is not a book for beginners. It assumes a fairly high level of skill and familiarity with advanced practices. That said, this is a treasure trove of innovation and methods to challenge the skills and imagination of anyone who loves to cook. The only other book I think it compares to is The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller. Both of these chefs rank amongst the top innovators in the world of fine cuisine. If you really want to push yourself as a chef buy this book. If you simply want an astonishingly beautiful coffee table conversation piece buy this book. Whatever you do make sure dining at Alinea is on your "Bucket List."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Epic. If you are not a professional chef but cook like one, get this book.
*by T***S on June 30, 2018*

This is the most complicated cookbook I have ever seen. If you want a challenge, like to constantly up your game, and want to buy lists of ingredients and pieces of equipment that you dont own, then get this book. I have started to wear out the binding from using it. This is college varsity level cooking. Expect some things to not work out, do some research, and try again it will work. Chef Achatz and his team have created some crazy wonderful things. Most importantly, they have captured the detail needed to recreate them. Directions are straightforward, meaning they expect you know what they are talking about when they explain it like a chef, and they expect you own things like a sous vide, a chinois, lab grade sieves, and jars of modernist ingredients. I was able to work around the equipment that was out of sight, like a rotovap, or a refrigerated centrifuge. this is a great companion to the Modernist Cuisine box set. When I received this book, I flipped through it for two days straight, back and forth. I have made several things for small and large groups, and they were fantastic, everyone was amazed and even though I gave full credit to Alinea and Chef Achatz there were high marks for execution. The ideas and thoughts I used to create my own dishes have also resulted in amazing things. If you are not a professional chef but cook like one, get this book.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Alinea: Grant Achatz
- French Laundry, Per Se, The (Thomas Keller Library)
- The French Laundry Cookbook (The Thomas Keller Library)

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