Grant Achatz is that chef who encourages and inspires creativity. Always thinking of ingredients in a different way. You look at one thing. He looks at it from eight different ways. He can also pull creativity out of other individuals. We could sit at the end of the night and talk about menu ideas and ingredient ideas, and you just start riffing. It’s like how you make music. One guy starts playing a little bit, the other one starts jamming along, and next thing you know there’s a harmony, and there’s a song. You put it together, and there’s your course, a little bit from everybody. Photo credit: Michael Muser