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Life, on the Line : a Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat by Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas [Achatz, Grant & Kokonas, Nick] is a cooking available to read on EtoBox.

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"One of America's great chefs" ( Vogue ) shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him international renown-and fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer. In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine. Then, positioned firmly in the world's culinary spotlight, Achatz was diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma-tongue cancer. The prognosis was grim, and doctors agreed the only course of action was to remove the cancerous tissue, which included his entire tongue. Desperate to preserve his quality of life, Grant undertook an alternative treatment of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. But the choice came at a cost. Skin peeled from the inside of Grant's mouth and throat, he rapidly lost weight, and most alarmingly, he lost his sense of taste. Tapping into the discipline, passion, and focus of being a chef, Grant rarely missed a day of work. He trained h

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Author
Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas [Achatz, Grant & Kokonas, Nick]
Publisher
Gotham Books
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781592406012
Category
cooking
Subjects
Memoir, Fiction, Home & Lifestyle
Rating
4.06 / 5 (3,824 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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