This is by now oldish news I've been meaning to post for days, but Steve Dolinsky did a nice interview with Graham Elliott Bowles of Avenues (and third member of the Cantu-Achatz-Bowles troika in the current Chicago magazine) on Wednesday the 9th. Scroll down to hear it here:
http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/848_rafeb05.asp
Nothing about cooking food with lasers from space, but interesting nonetheless....