Parvati Magazine January 2014 | Page 20

FILM SPINNING PLATES FILM en and say to him, “I feel like I know you.” His team of cooks is passionate about pushing the envelope, doing what no one has ever done before, and moving ever higher in international rankings. Meanwhile, Achatz is already looking for the next restaurant, the next opportunity to do something different. Yet he faces a life-threatening obstacle. Breitbach’s Country Dining in Balltown, Iowa, dates back a century. It has become a community centre and regularly serves many times more people than the entire population of the town. Regulars have their own key, come in and make coffee and sit down to breakfast together. The family, led by Mike and Cindy Breitbach, all puts in long days making comfortable, familiar food for the people who visit - fried chicken, mashed p