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WATCH: Nick Kokonas Says 'Michelin Doesn't Like The Idea Of Hardcore Innovation'
Imbibe and Inspire caught up with Grant Achatz and restaurant partner Nick Kokonas of Chicago's Alinea, Next, and The Aviary for a short video on -- simply -- getting gamed by the system.
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Chez Panisse Set To Reopen On The Summer Solstice, Mark Your Calendar?
Even if a devastating fire and months of repairs would incentivize an earlier opening, Alice Waters will not open her restaurant until the beginning of the Summer Solstice. Whenever that is.
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WATCH: Richard Blais Expects Us To Spherify Horseradish While Drunk In New Burger Lab
On this week's Burger Lab, Richard Blais asserts that his British-inspired Welsh Rarebit Burger is both the world's best hangover food, and a late-night go-to. We're inclined to agree, but if we attempted to spherify horseradish while drunk or hungover, we would 100% end up on the front page of Pinterest Fails.
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WATCH: Amy's Baking Co. Did Kitchen Nightmares To Combat Cyberbullying
Amy's Baking Co. owners Amy and Samy sat down with Phoenix radio station My103.9 to hash out their side of what is now everyone's own personal Kitchen Nightmare in no less than a seven-part interview, all conveniently uploaded to YouTube.
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Gotta Catch ‘Em All: GoogaMooga Chef Trading Cards Are Here (PHOTOS)
Guys, this year’s GoogaMooga is already going to be a major improvement upon last year’s; for one thing, THERE ARE TRADING CARDS THIS TIME. Yup, as in old school, swap-with-your-friends-to-complete-a-set, bask-in-your-own-triumph-upon-completion trading cards.
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Plating 101: Six Famous Dishes That Look Just Like Modernist Paintings
While it’s a given that most chefs draw their plating inspiration from the art world, occasionally their dishes verge from mere inspiration to recognizable if not conscious homage.
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WATCH: Artist David Choe Gets Mistaken For Chef David Chang All The Freaking Time
PSA TO THE WORLD: You really need to know who David Choe is. Not only is he a renowned artist, professional lunatic, and number two on my list of Millionaires I Want To Marry (only behind space cowboy Elon Musk), he is also, importantly, not David Chang.
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Art Projects: How Long Till Pantone Food Pairings Are The New Eleven Madison Park Menu Grid?
Occasionally, we cheat on food with design. So, naturally we’re head-over-heels eye-lusting after this brilliant Pantone Pairings photo series from Minneapolis-based artist David Schwen, who’s showing off food’s best twosomes like Pantone color chips.
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Alec Baldwin Says He Is The Alice Waters to Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Celebrity Chef’
We knew it! We knew that Tina Fey hooked Alec Baldwin onto cooking shows! What else explains the extended metaphor involving celebrity chefs that he used to differentiate between theater actors and film actors, which was certainly meant as a swipe at Shia LaBeouf?
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Heads Up, Reichl: This Poet’s Food Lyricism Steams Up The Page
We fear that the New York Times has just discovered someone far more baroque about food, more ornate about weather, more poetic about restaurants — and, wouldn’t you know, it’s an actual poet.
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Restaurateur Keith McNally’s Actorly Past Involved The West End, Strip Clubs, And Maybe Embezzlement
In a profile in The Guardian previewing the London opening of Balthazar, legendary restaurateur Keith McNally revealed that long before he was a world-famous restaurateur, he was…an…actor!
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Paula Deen, Craft Queen, Has Taken Up Shelling
We shudder to wonder how much a Paula Deen original will sell for on eBay in 50 years.
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Restaurant Designer For The Stars Spills His Secrets For Success
When famous chefs want a new restaurant, they usually call Adam D. Tihany to design it for them.
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PHOTO: Vintage Anthony Bourdain Zine Cover Triggers Serious ’80s Nostalgia
Check out Anthony Bourdain, pre-fame, on the cover (read: in the background) of this issue of ZAT from 1985!
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