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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: In the Kitchen with Chicago Chef Grant Achatz [Watch (HLS stream): In the Kitchen with Chicago Chef Grant Achatz](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/4qMRBQ2y.m3u8) (1:48)  _Published 2010-12-27. Joel Stein joins Chef Grant Achatz in the kitchen of his Chicago restaurant Alinea._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:08 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [From a Best-Place Restaurant to 'Top Chef'](/video/MKKmubgt/) ### From a Best-Place Restaurant to 'Top Chef' [Can You Cook Like a Master Chef in Your Kitchen?](/video/GbE8HD9H/) ### Can You Cook Like a Master Chef in Your Kitchen? [TIME 100: Grant Achatz](/video/zY8pJ3qD/) ### TIME 100: Grant Achatz --- ## Transcript >> I'm here with Grant Achatz in the Kitchen of Alinea and this is the crazy part, like people are coming to your three star restaurant right now and I might be touching part of their food. >> Oh you will be. >> How am I doing? >> You're doing good. >> You think people are gonna notice that an amateur cooked their risotto? So while you taste it. >> There you go. >> Pull it off. >> Super hot right? >> Good. >> I have to show you what a three- star chef in the most impressive complicated restaurant on earth made himself for dinner. Bread with melted cheese on it. Yes. Have you guys been hearing good things about the risotto? >> Yes. >> Yes. Really. Like more tonight than usually you think? >> I think if you look at the bowls, they're always empty. >> Is it- that's my risotto, on the plate. -[ unk ]. >> Really. >> Oh yeah. They're probably much better now than you have-- >> Okay. Good. That's what I thought. Were you nervous? >> No. Were you? >> Yes. I was actually. I made the-- I didn't put the truffles on top of it. I made the risotto which is a $ 75 supplement and people ate all of it. It came back clean. >> Yeah. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"In the Kitchen with Chicago Chef Grant Achatz","description":"Joel Stein joins Chef Grant Achatz in the kitchen of his Chicago restaurant Alinea.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/4qMRBQ2y/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-12-27T18:32:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/4qMRBQ2y.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/4qMRBQ2y/","duration":"PT1M48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/4qMRBQ2y/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```