I ran this photo by Donna a while ago, but came across it this weekend and love it so much I decided to put it back up. Just because.
Want to see something even more beautiful? Watch this video, from Grant Achatz and the team at Alinea and Next, the restaurant that is now devoted to childhood. Anyone else tear up? It was the beaters that got me. (My colleague Emilia Juocys found it and put it in the Sidenotes here but it deserves to be featured.)
Angela Alaimo
That is really awesome. Just love how they interpret some favourite childhood foods, and while they do it all so elegantly, the playfulness is still there. Like the beaters. And the stick people. And the lunch boxes!
Natalie Luffer Sztern
It's not food it is art in another media: both food and movie
Natalie Luffer Sztern
How can Art ever be bad? especially when u get to digest every ounce of the detail
BlondeBomber
@ Natalie, YES! How can art be bad when you can eat it? And, food is most certainly art.
Chris
beaters got me too... damn!
Teri
I just wish I could afford to eat there someday...
E. Nassar
This was perfect and fantastic...but I thought "modernist cuisine" and "molecular gastronomy" is supposed to be robbing the "soul" out of cooking, not make me tear up! Thanks for sharing it and I will be emailing this link to quiet a few people.
Greg Berg
Great Video....speaking of GREEN....I look forward to hearing about your Big Green Egg.
Christine Wolfe
For me, the boys' seriousness while making the PB&J juxtaposed against the adults' playfullness drwaing the sun on the plate is what got me. Who, in any stage of life, isn't yearning for some elusive something that they perceive they've either never achieved, or are trying to recapture? Mr. Achatz is truly an artist. Great observation, Natalie.
Susan
I loved this! Everyone should get to have the joy of being a kid again, to play with food in the kitchen and at the table.
Julie
It was good but honestly I liked the fun of watching the menu development...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fmMdoWk9yRA
Chris K.
I'm sorry, but I can't identify with the emotional response others have to this kind of cooking. I feel it's kitsch. Certainly executed at a high level, with no doubt, but still kitsch, gone horribly wrong.
I feel like it's the taste-bud equivalent of child pornography, and it's thoroughly disgusting.
brad barnett
Chris K. time to take your meds my man.
Matthew Kayahara
Agreed, the beaters absolutely got me. I would love to be able to experience this one. Time to go to Chicago!
amelia from z tasty life
Thank you for sharing the video: what a great way to look at dreams... from the kitchen
Laurence
"This video is private" 🙁
Mattm
Where'd the video go? Wanted to watch it again as a good "week ender".
Veronica
I got the same response. Is it because I'm Canadian that I can't see it. : )
Ellie
Why does this have to be the ONLY rliabele source? Oh well, gj!
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ruhlman
it's been made private, wonder why.
Lizg
FYI on their faceboook page they noted the video was taken down because of some permission issue with the soundtrack music- they promised to recut with new music and get it back up soon...it is a lovely video and I can't wait for my reservation in December!