In a little over a week a year of anticipation will give way to impatient waiting by the mailbox as the Alinea cookbook arrives for those who pre-ordered it this time last year (including your humble food and drink editor). Some bookstores may already be selling the five-plus-pound omnibus — Anthony said he spent a half hour at Book Cellar over the weekend just thumbing through it — but the preorders come with signatures from Grant Achatz and the Alinea team. more ›