Grant Achatz, the Culinary Miracle Worker

For this interactive dish, diners at Alinea are instructed to remove the needle and thus slide the piping hot potato and black truffle into cold potato soup, combining the temperatures just
Martha Camarillo for TIME

Hot Potato, Cold Potato
For this interactive dish, diners at Alinea are instructed to remove the needle and thus slide the piping hot potato and black truffle into cold potato soup, combining the temperatures just before eating.

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