Green Thumbs Up

Hi Friends;

As we enter the last week of this Kickstarter, there's much for us to feel gratitude for. Many thanks to each of you for the encouragement and support you've offered this project so far; we're deeply grateful!

While the campaign itself still has a bit more time left before it closes, we've nevertheless been busying ourselves with starting work in earnest on this book. Chefs Grant Achatz, Micah Melton, Ingi Sigurdsson and myself have been sifting through the Aviary's extensive recipe catalog to begin selecting which ones we'd like to include. As we green-light various recipes, we begin work transcribing each recipe and verifying it for correctness (a process I'll be detailing more thoroughly in an upcoming post). Principal photography is also underway (and again, I'll be elaborating on this in detail a bit further down the road).

Ingi chooses glassware from the Alinea Group’s serviceware library

Micah and Ingi discussing layer densities for the Layered Hurricane recipe in our studio kitchen

Some glassware selections: on the right are “on deck” choices, to the left is our “graveyard”…no piece will be used twice for our book

You can download a fullsize digital copy of this recipe for yourself here.

Caroline and Ingi help set up our wheatgrass stage for the Green Thumb

Until next time;

--Allen