Post 5- Senses and Stuff Grant Achatz: The Chef Who Couldn't Taste https://www.npr.org/2011/08/29/139786504/grant-achatz-the-chef-who-couldnt-taste An extremely interesting article on the taste buds or lack thereof of a chef name Grant Achatz. Named the best restaurant in America by Gourmet Magazine, Alinea was a leading member of molecular gastronomy cuisine, which is comprised of unexpected flavor profiles and labratory procedures to made to create compatibility at a molecular level. The head chef and founder of this fine establishment actually lost his sense of taste to stage 4 tongue cancer. Luckily surviving the treatment, he would began to relearn all of these taste sensations from sweet to unami. This is a story about a man that never gave up and looks at the positivies in his problems, " I could understand how flavors were coming back and how they synergized together.
