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...Paris and through Latin America. Many dishes are served on a block of translucent glass that looks like ice. One is tuna accompanied by horseradish sorbet, colder and more crystalline than the traditional horseradish in cream. Among our other favorites were a soup of sea urchin, seared foie gras and watermelon; and hot smoked arctic char with octopus, mushroom, buckwheat ragout and duck consomme...
...days of frock-coated waiters who lower engraved silver flatware to your left. Oxfordesque high-table dining has been usurped by gangly groups grappling for their barbeque sauce and tater tots. Ms. FManners stands behind the beauty of a first-courseplatters of baked brie, fine caviar piled high and foie gras sliced with utmost care. But dining halls that were once symbols of refinement are now filled with vagabonds who nightly make a mockery of their first course. While frequenting salad bars for their leafy greens and balsalmic, diners oft-times leave their trays unattended in search of far-away...
...Then, because he has the luxury of charging a bucketful, he solves the problem of your palate's becoming bored after two or three bites by serving five to 10 mini-courses of just a few gobbles each. The only big hunks he puts on the plate are of foie gras and truffles, which he loves and feels most people only get teased...
...perhaps American food has become Japanese. Undoubtedly the greatest effect Japanese food has had on American cuisine is to ease its reliance on fat as a taste booster. So it's ironic that the Japanese influence came to the U.S. by way of France, home of butter and foie gras. It all began around the '60s, when Japanese students at the great French cooking schools divulged their own trade secrets. Soon Parisian chefs had adopted such Japanese techniques as arranging food artfully in tiny portions. "The minimalism and simplicity, the sophistication of presentation appealed to chefs in three-star restaurants...
Chefs say one key reason to poach is the healthfulness of Japanese cuisine. Homing in on Americans' increasing attention to their bodies, restaurateur Nieporent tapped Michel Nischan to create a menu for his swanky Heartbeat restaurant in the W Hotel using no butter, cream or foie gras. "I was nervous," Nischan says. "Without those ingredients, people presume food won't taste good...