{"product_id":"9781592406975","title":"Life, on the Line","description":"\u003cb\u003e \"One of America's great chefs\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e), Grant Achatz,  shares how his drive to cook immaculate food fueled his miraculous  triumph over tongue cancer. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 2007 chef Grant Achatz had been named one of the best new chefs  in America by Food \u0026amp; Wine, he had received the James Beard Foundation  Rising Star Chef of the Year Award, and he and Nick Kokonas had 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prognosis grim, Grant undertook an alternative treatment of  aggressive chemotherapy and radiation that ravaged his body and left  him without a sense of taste. Tapping into his profound discipline and  passion, he trained his chefs to mimic his palate and learned how to  cook with his other senses. As Kokonas was able to attest, the food was  never better. Five months later, Grant was declared cancer-free and  went on to achieve some of the highest honors in the culinary world.  \u003ci\u003eLife, on the Line\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a chef's memoir, it is also a book  about survival, about nurturing creativity, and about profound  friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Achatz, Grant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43244638175456,"sku":"","price":16.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6ea121e4-d596-4e27-b954-7768befbf2b7.jpg?v=1660744555","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9781592406975","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}