This guy recreated one of the craziest restaurants in the world at home
If you don't know the restaurant Alinea, know this: it's one of the best restaurants in the world and it's as much a mad science lab and art museum as it is a place to eat dinner. It's crazy, I mean they serve things like edible helium balloons. Somehow, this normal guy recreated all of that magic at home.
How did Allen Hemberger, the normal guy who's a visual effects artists in his day job and doesn't quite have a chef background, do it? After eating at Alinea and having his mind blown, he decided to cook every single recipe from Alinea's cookbook. Which you might think is easy and cheating until you realize how complicated each recipe and dish is. The recipes aren't made for normal cooks, like how clothes from the fashion runway aren't made for normal people.
You need special equipment, sometimes even special dishes, various smaller recipes for each main recipe, weird ingredients, new techniques gels, foams, an entire laboratory and an insane amount of skill and patience and craziness to pull it off. Allen had it all, and when he didn't, he learned how to do it or build it on his own or go searching for that special ingredient. Watch his journey below.
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I live in Chicago right down the street from it and I am embarrassed to say I still have never been. But my friend whose only real restaurant experience was as a college bartender got a job there as a runner for some ungodly reason. He still doesn't know how he managed to get the job but said that people would come in from around the world with phenomenal resumes just to try and get any position at all there. That's how sought after and highly regarded it is.
1. They want people who will do the job with looking "to learn", to move up. Just do the damn job you were hired for.
2. The guy in charge of hiring liked his looks.
WTF is up with that restaurant's URL ?
A useless subdomain and a subfolder?
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