Noooooooooooooo!

I thought he was just taking a break to focus on creating for a bit.

This deserves an FPP.

I'm ambivalent about molecular gastronomy. It strikes me as the culinary equivalent of the nouveau roman movement. Intriguing possibilites for new forms of creative expression that eventually fail to compete on equal terms with the old forms.

I've eaten at Alinea. The attitude there was fun, not snooty....unlike the parody in the Diet Coke ad of a few years ago.

I've done minibar. It was fantastic fun, too, several people just having fun with food. I'd do it again, but we're talking once every, oh, 5 years or so? Certainly not a place to go to very often, and not just due to the price.