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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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Last Call: Eric Ripert Expanding Le Bernardin
Plus: which fancy pants food editor dines at Girls’ Cafe Grumpy, US Navy baristas, and a 14-year-old McDonald’s hamburger.
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Starbucks Buys A Farm; Somewhere Alice Waters Is Weeping
Starbanzo Beans finally saddled up and bought its first coffee farm in Costa Rica for somewhere from $5-10 million, not to lovingly cultivate each and every bean from harvest to brew like some hipster coffee joints out there, but rather, to find a cure for “coffee rust,” an epidemic affecting Asian coffee purveyors that has now jumped continents to Latin America.
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Last Call: Nom Nom Nom Nom Your Way Through The New Namco Restaurant
Plus: Patrick Dempsey’s handsome face, and the emptiness of consumer culture as seen through juice cleanses.
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Last Call: Hugh Jackman Wants To Set Up His Son With Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Daughter
Plus: Subway’s latest terrible condiment, the newest Voltaggio restaurant review, and 2012′s most-expensed “restaurant.”
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Last Call: Starbucks’ ‘Come Together’ Campaign Is Totally Going To Solve All The World’s Problems
PLUS: Dr. McDreamy saves things, in the real world. Oh, Dr. McDreamy.
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Starbucks Viral Holiday Campaign Horribly Backfires As Users Demand Coffee Giant ‘Pay Their F**king Tax’
When Starbucks UK asked its followers to tweet out holiday greetings followed by the hashtag #spreadthecheer, it definitely did not receive the happy tweets about family and snow and Santas and Hannukahs it hoped it would.
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Last Call: DadBoner Offers Suggestions For The Entree List Of Guy Fieri’s Times Square Resto
Plus, MRI produce, coffee-themed doggie daycare, and why French chefs need to learn to play nice (from the mouth of a Frenchman).
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Last Call: Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Richard Rosendale, And Jerome Bocuse Will Throw You A Dinner Party For $250,000
Plus, Bryan Voltaggio calls for marriage equality, Graham Elliot announces Detroit as the Wild, Wild West, and the PSL shortage averted.
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Blogger Discovers That You’re Never More Than 170 Miles Away From A Starbucks
Ha, did you think you could escape the mermaid?? Think again, person who likes local coffeehouses and rails agains the creep of corporatism in American society!
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Last Call: Buy Your Own Grant Achatz-Approved Infuser
PLUS: drugged candy, the drink that will make bartenders despise you, and iPhone innovations we’re not sure were necessary.
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WATCH: PETA’s Latest Ad Is Actually Really Sex-Positive, So We’re Confused About Hating It (NSFW)
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