If you didn't get to eat the opening menu at Next, you can at least attempt to cook it.
The 126-page digital cookbook, which details every course of the 1906 Paris menu at Grant Achatz's ever-evolving restaurant (which has since served Thai food and is now in "Childhood" mode), will be released on iTunes Tuesday. It includes exacting recipes, down to the gram and tenth of an ounce, for every morsel served in the Escoffier-inspired menu, more than 200 photographs and a video of that famous pressed duck course (see below).
"Paris: 1906" costs $4.99 and is available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Next co-owner Nick Kokonas says it already is ranked second among iBooks' best-selling cookbooks as a pre-order.
Production on the Thai menu iBook is nearly complete, and the Childhood iBook is in the works, he says.
Sun-Times Food editor Janet Rausa Fuller is always thinking about her next meal.

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