TRUFFLES NO TRIFLE FOR OSCAR NIGHT.Byline: Larry Lipson Daily News Staff Writer Wolfgang Puck Wolfgang Johann Puck (born Wolfgang Johann Topfschnig on July 8, 1949) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles. will be cooking fresh imported truffles at the big Oscar bash this year. Puck, who annually plans the menu for the Governors Ball sit-down dinner following the Academy Awards program, said at a pretasting press conference Friday at his Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. Spago that he wants the whole dining room at the Shrine Exposition Center ``to smell like black truffles - earthy and sexy.'' The 1,600 invited dinner guests - from a list consisting of mostly winners, nominees, presenters and performers - will be served an entree of roasted chicken breast with a wild mushroom risotto ri·sot·to n. pl. ri·sot·tos A dish of rice cooked in broth, usually with saffron, and served with grated cheese. [Italian, from riso, rice, from Old Italian; see rice. and French black truffles. And they'll be munching Oscar-shaped, gold-covered chocolates as part of the dessert. Puck's Oscar-shaped matzo topped with Oscar-shaped smoked salmon will be part of an appetizer plate of marinated lobster salad, sushi-style avocado rolls, Moroccan carrot salad in a radicchio ra·dic·chi·o n. pl. ra·dic·chi·os Any of several varieties of chicory, having red or red-spotted leaves that form globose or elongated heads. cup, marinated mushroom salad, marinated asparagus with orange mustard, roasted eggplant with goat cheese, a truffle truffle (trŭf`əl) [Fr.], subterranean edible fungus that forms a mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationship with the roots of certain trees and plants. The part of the fungus used as food is the ascoma, the fruiting body of the fungus. beet salad and prosciutto-basil focaccia. Attendees will nosh on caviar-topped roasted new potatoes, Chinois vegetable spring rolls with apricot mustard sauce, smoked sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the on crisp potato galettes and smoked salmon pizza with dill cream. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--2) Wolfgang Puck, above, shows off items on the Oscar Governors Ball dinner menu while Oscar-shaped chocolates star at top. Phil McCarten/Daily News |
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