Strawberry, violet, nicoise olive
For Daniel's birthday we took part in the Tour (tasting menu) at Alinea in Chicago, IL. View all 27 courses on Flickr.
This course is a sphere of strawberry, surrounded by layers of olive and violet-flavored white chocolate. We were instructed to place it in our mouths and "let it do its thing" as it melted in our mouths. You could feel the discrete layers popping as it melted.
Read about Chef Grant Achatz developing this dish in the New Yorker.
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