This is a list of what my sister and I could remember from our dinner at Alinea. I thought there were 28 courses but we could only remember 24. So maybe it was 24 courses. At any rate here they are, probably in the wrong order:

i / Amuse-bouche: zucchini, mango, saffron, and chamomile

ii / Kudos for not only room-temperature (ie spreadable) butter, but two kinds of butter – goat’s milk and cow’s milk (I liked the cow’s milk better – it tasted like the cultured butter jessica and I made over IAP)

1 / Heart of Palm in five sections:  vanilla pudding, fava bean with preserved lemon, garlic bulghur wheat with a garlic chip on top, prune puree, pumpernickel bread with black truffles (a note here: this was so much fun to eat! each piece was placed on a pedestal, and the way they tell you to eat the thing is to tip it back into your mouth as if you’re taking a shot) (more…)