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Fulton Market Street. Chicago. Today's weather report. Today it rained, sleeted, hailed, snowed, got bright and sunny and then gray and cloudy, all in a matter of hours. Tonight's dinner. Highly experimental.
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Group selfie
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While we waited to begin, we were each handed a black bag filled with various items including vials, glass bottles, matches, a key, a glove, and a squeeze tube of bronzer.
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Contents of our drink purse or murse for the men.
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We walked over to dinner as group, hung up our own coats and entered a room filled with colorful art by Chicago artist and photographer, Adam Siegel.
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Thinking stage pieces by Adam Siegel
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Adam asked guests to put on some music.
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We gathered around the table and poured our assigned bottle from our bag into the punch bowl.
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Coriander
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Pineapple
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Japanese whisky
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Some of the bottles used for the communal punch. But wait. There's more.
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Champagne sabering and a friendly wave.
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Nori and roe
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Passion fruit glass with foie gras.
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Wagyu on puffed onion toast
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Heading downstairs to start dinner
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The next room for the next few courses.
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Our table.
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Art by Adam Siegel
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Frozen pineapple
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We were asked to take out the baggie that was in our black bag. Inside were matches, a glove and a key to open our next drink.
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Using the matches to light our candle.
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Pouring the bottle with the white sticker on the cap into our shot glass.
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Soft-shell crab in clear gazpacho
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How do your senses shift when one of your other senses is interrupted? For this next course, the music was turned off abruptly as the lights were brightened which immediately silenced the room. Servers came out in white hazmat suits and placed a white car
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This is what the envelope said.
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Inside the envelope.
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Apparently my visual senses kicked in and I started to look around. I looked at the decor.
