A step-by-step guide to how Alinea's “Short rib—beets, cranberry, Campari” is prepared over at CHOW. The picture above shows a cook slicing a sheet of beet juice-Campari gel. Anyone who's worked in a kitchen of any calibre knows that restaurant dishes are never as simple as they appear. And that's even more true at a place like Alinea.
Posted on February 13, 2007
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