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Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz: The Reunion Tour!
The dream team will prepare twenty-course meals at Alinea, Per Se, and the French Laundry. But they won't come cheap.
Posted 09/17/08 in Grub Street : Dream Team
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Grant Achatz Extends His (Three-Stop) New York Tour
Grant Achatz is coming to the Astor Center in November.
Posted 08/12/08 in Grub Street : Foodievents
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Grant Achatz Fights to Save His Life and Taste
'The New Yorker' profiles Grant Achatz, the brilliant young chef who lost his sense of taste to tongue cancer.
Posted 05/05/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Danny Meyer in Harlem; El Morocco in Washington Heights
Danny Meyer might open a café in Harlem, what Grant Achatz did when he was diagnosed with tongue cancer, and a new incarnation of the legendary El Morocco.
Posted 05/05/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Chile's Salmon Are Sick; the New York Alinea That Wasn't
A virus attacks Chile's salmon population, Grant Achatz reveals why Alinea won't be opening in New York, and the world's finest cheese is announced in Wisconsin.
Posted 03/27/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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A New Food Emporium at South Street Seaport?; Join a CSA Today
Consultant Clark Wolf is in a rush to open artisanal-food stalls across from the old Fulton Fish Market by Memorial Day, but apparently this has nothing to do with the proposed New Amsterdam Public market. [Insatiable Critic] Related: Batali Shows a Little Leg to Sex Up New Amsterdam Public A lawsuit between a Queens Chinese restaurant and CW11, regarding Kaity Tong’s reporting on a mouse allegedly found in the food, is close to being thrown out since the lawyers can’t prove any malice on the newscaster’s part. [NYP] Grant Achatz, star chef of Chicago’s Alinea, may have beat his tongue cancer, but his sense of taste may not return for a year or two. [WSJ]
Posted 01/24/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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A Hip-hop IHOP in Brooklyn; Grant Achatz Beats Cancer
Mary J. Blige and Foxy Brown’s producer, known to fans as Don Pooh, owns what is already being called the “hip-hop IHOP” that opened in downtown Brooklyn yesterday. [NYDN] Related: The Phantom IHOP of Midtown West Meatpaper magazine is a popular read with both carnivores and vegetarians, which is how the founders learned that bacon, delectable treat of treats, “is how vegetarians change their minds” when they revert to their meat-eating ways. [NYT] Today in unsubstantiated rumors: David Bouley’s forthcoming Japanese restaurant/cooking school will open across the street from Upstairs at Bouley. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine] Related: David Bouley to Open Restaurant With Japan’s Top Cooking School
Posted 12/19/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Grant Achatz Reinvents the Cookbook Deal
Not too many men facing a life-threatening disease would readily forgo a half-million dollars in cash. But not many men are Grant Achatz, and his cookbook deal, which Serious Eats describes in great detail today, inspires as much admiration in us as his battle against tongue cancer. As a big-shot chef, it would have been easy for Achatz to take a giant advance and produce a ghostwritten cookbook, pregnant with food-porn images, that would rest on the coffee tables of Chicagoland burghers for years to come. But the same originality that made Alinea what it is is at play in his cookbook endeavor: Achatz has worked a deal where the cookbook will be the gateway to an ongoing, dynamic Web resource, and in lieu of an advance, he and his co-author will get a big cut of sales. It’s brave and original and makes us want to pull for him even more than we did. Alinea's Grant Achatz Turns Down Lots of Money to Write a Book His Way [Serious Eats]
Posted 09/25/07 in Grub Street : Back of the House
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Grant Achatz Getting Better; Bourdain Spreads Blood and Holiday Cheer
Grant Achatz writes Ruhlman that the tumor on the great chef's tongue has been diminished by about 75 percent, thanks to aggressive chemo. [Ruhlman]. In his upcoming No Reservations holiday special, Tony Bourdain cooks a Thanksgiving dinner with L.A. rockers Queens of the Stone Age and spends "a fair amount of time spraying stage blood onto [his] niece and nephew’s face." [The Grinder/Chow] Rickshaw Dumpling has officially opened. [Eater]
Posted 09/21/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Grant Achatz’s Quest to Save His Sense of Taste; Gordon Ramsay Denies Fakery
Grant Achatz, the world-famous Chicago chef diagnosed with tongue cancer, is trying a new treatment that will save his sense of taste. [WSJ] Gordon Ramsay claims that he would never dream of faking stuff for his TV show, as a recent lawsuit by Dillons claimed. Except for that fishing trip, of course. [Chow] Confused by the intricacies of the current farm bill under consideration by congress? Or maybe you just want to see anthropomorphic apples chase anthropopmorphic twinkies? Either way, this film is for you. [SuperChef]
Posted 08/31/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Great American Chef Sick; New Yorkers Enjoy Too Much Mercury
Grant Achatz of Chicago’s Alinea, arguably the most acclaimed of all American chefs, has an advanced form of cancer but vows to beat it. [Chicago Sun-Times] A quarter of New Yorkers have elevated mercury levels in their bloodstreams. Especially those who eat fish. [NYP] It’s tough for Top Chef rivals Howie and Joey. When your life has turned into a paella whipped up by Philip K. Dick and Andrew Sullivan, it's time to move to the suburbs with a pair of chocolate Labs. [Amuse Biatch] Related: ‘Top Chef’’s Howie Tastes the Big Time, Briefly, at Gotham Bar and Grill ‘Top Chef’ Biases Finally Out on the Table
Posted 07/24/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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