Serving the stars at the Academy Awards

by Nicole Weston, Posted Mar 2nd 2006 @ 9:02AM

Wolfgang Puck has been the chef in charge of coordinating the menu at the official post-Academy Awards dinner for over ten years. Every year he tempts the taste buds of Hollywood's elite and never fails to impress. The dinner is served to more than 1600 guests, and coordinating the staffing necessary to serve that number of people simultaneously - hundreds of personnel in the dining room and kitchen - almost requires more skill than putting together an award-winning menu.

The menu will feature chicken and black truffle risotto, smoked salmon pizzas and, of course, gold dusted chocolate Oscars made from Valrhona chocolate in custom molds. Other foods will be shaped as Oscars to bring fun and a unifying theme to the evening, like Oscar crackers as appetizers and pastry Oscars with the main course. Pastry chef Sherry Yard has created an "Asian-inspired Zen fantasy" dessert, in a black and white chocolate opera cake enhanced with coconut filling, a pineapple sour cream ice cream cone and a sprinkle of pineapple and passion fruit.

[Photo from Sky.com]

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