Grant Achatz, the Culinary Miracle Worker

Fried Pheasant, Burning Leaves
Juxtaposition and aroma are key ingredients at Alinea, where a bite of tempura-dipped pheasant is served on a branch of burning oak leaves to evoke memories of fall. Achatz's next restaurant, appropriately named "Next", will focus on time travel. Its first menu will re-create Paris in 1906.

• 2011 TIME 100: Grant Achatz