Grant Achatz, owner of Chicago's famous Alinea restaurant, and Michael Ruhlman, the author of the Making of a Chef trilogy, are teaming up for what promises to be a major culinary event in Chicago on March 4....

What was your most memorable trip this year? To Pontarlier, France, the historic home of absinthe, to serve on an absinthe-tasting jury at the annual Absinthiades festival.