actually looks like they are trying too hard

now i'm really bummed. a couple of friends of mine are involved in alinea, and i had a chance to go when i was in chicago last june. but we couldn't because of kids with ear infections. damn you, ear infections!

You know, I hate to be a yokel, but how is "Alinea" pronouced?

It's all so foamy.

Well, I'm no expert on the acutal restaurant, but alinea is a word in French (which I speak) which is pronounced: ah-lee-nay-ah.

Photos of the new spring menu will be taken by electron microscope!

it's pronounced ah-LIN-ee-uh. at least that's how they say it when they answer the phone..

The disparity between the rich and the poor in this country is a hell of a thing. A hell of a thing.

Made reservations for the wrong week last time when I was in the Chicago area. Regretted it ever since. Sigh.

From a friend: "One of those photos looks like it has two gonads sitting on the plate, one standing up, the other on its side! America, as a culture or culinary civilization has come to the edge and we are poised to jump the shark!"

Give me a break.

Is that food?

why not ?

what kind of leaves do you burn?