Here's Grant Achatz and chef de cuisine Matt Chasseur on Alinea's salad centerpiece, in which herbs and greens sprayed with salt-and-pepper water are stuck into actual soil and clipped by the diner to accompany a salad. Achatz says it was created to prove Alinea is not just "sciencey" and to highlight their relationship with local farmers. [YouTube via Eater National]
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