A Splash of Creativity

As if it the news that Ferran Adria is going to close El Bulli for a couple of years wasn't enough to shake the food world, there's been talk of Grant Achatz (the chef of Alinea) applying his culinary inventiveness to cocktails by opening a bar with an alcohol tasting menu. While foodies are probably already prepared to jump on reservations, the whole thing is still just a dream. But the rumors did spark an amusing and embarrassing mistake for the Independent. Until the dream becomes a reality, the Wall Street Journal article about chefs and their ideas for new ways to imbibe that prompted all the speculation is worth a read.