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GQ Dissects Alinea’s Fall Menu

The Spring Thaw
The Spring Thaw Photo: courtesy of Alinea

Grant Achatz has never been one to hide his creative process. Between the photos, videos, diagrams, the memoir, and classes at Harvard, he’s been open about how he transforms his inspiration into dinner. But we are finding this GQ feature on the fall menu for Alinea particularly valuable because it brings everything together in such an easily digestible way. Plus, are we the only ones that find the sketches kind of toeing the line between incoherent scribbles and mesmerizing works of art? Nothing really earth shattering, unless you count the hot and cold cocktail he’s planning to unleash at Aviary, which may or may not have bacon in it. [GQ]

GQ Dissects Alinea’s Fall Menu