We’re getting closer to the release date for Grant Achatz’s memoir, Life, On the Line. Recently he sat down recently with Publisher’s Weekly to talk about the process of writing. So what do we learn? Well, first off, Achatz didn’t do so well in school: “I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college. I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences and now I’m known as a molecular gastronomist.” Second, there is honestly going to an iPad app to go with the book. And third, the Alinea cookbook that he already wrote doesn’t count: “A cookbook is not like being an author. It’s writing down recipes; it’s not writing. This was writing.” [Publisher’s Weekly via Eater]
