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| Alinea | 
 enlarge | Author: Grant Achatz
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 288
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.1
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 9.9 x 2
ISBN: 1580089283
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9781580089289
ASIN: 1580089283
Publication Date: October 2008
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 Elegance December 1, 2008
A friend of mine bought this book and loved it so much he also bought an autographed copy too. I got to read the book at my friend's place. The photography and graphical design of this book was just extraordinary! The elegant book is truly a coffee table book. It really shows the elegancy of presentation of the food. Awesome book!
 from Chef to Chef November 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great Book , one of the best I bought this year . Grant Achatz is a master of his kraft , and a missionary for the future of food .
Best Value for money Cook book in 2008 .
Absolutely Beautiful! November 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is stunning--beautifully designed and photographed and very interesting to read! I live far away from Chicago, and may never get to go to Alinea, but reading this book is like stepping into a magical food world. I might not ever cook anything from it, but I know that I will look at it often to stimulate my imagination to try create my own edible works of art.
This is a wonderful gift for any food obsessed person--I have already purchased 2 for presents.
Achatz is Dali: Alinea - Each Bite is a Paragraph of Mindfulness November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Achatz - to cuisine - is what Dali was to canvas. Esoteric, ephemeral, surreal, transcendent, a-linear, the Alinea images are an introspection into the poetry of taste.
Having had the fortune of experiencing Alinea earlier this year, I was happy to stumble upon the book later in the fall: as I had been trying to "paint the picture" of the experience for my friends, I felt the insufficiency of words to convey the whimsical intensity and the moody nuance of Alinea forms. The book solved the problem. With this in mind, I recommend the book as a kind of photoalbum of Alinea pilgrimage to compliment the memories.
I would like to muse on the semantics of the restaurant's name itself...
The word "alinea" is a typographical character that derives from the Latin off the line and is used as a paragraph sign to mark a new train of thought.
As such, the restaurant name "Alinea" is a logical choice for a bite-sized journey that is Achatz' cuisine. The restaurant offers two menus - a Tasting and a Tour. Each menu is a stream of gustatory consciousness in which the mind of the Chef takes the pilgrim's palate on an odyssey of fleeting encounters... in which each bite-sized course is a paragraph of mindfulness and a new train of thought...
The resulting experience is that of continuous attention and presence. Alinea is akin to a culinary harem of exotic one-night stands, in which the touch-and-go courses assure that an eater can never bite more than his or her mind can chew... It is a kaleidoscope of subdued Enya-like mood-wafts of taste amidst the uprising thermals of futuristic presentation...
I know, I know - if this sounds poetic, it's because the experience was, indeed, poetry, with each course - nothing more than a stanza; with each course - nothing less than a taste off the line of the Expected - i.e. an alinea.
Alinea - to sum up - is a non-linear eating experience for an open mind.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D., Author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbinger, 2008; www.eatingthemoment.com)
Copyright, 2008
Awesome November 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is what the culinary world has been waiting on is cutting edge stuff from a cutting edge chef- Awesome!
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