Inspiration and Information for your Tabletop

Chefs have used it for years, though its origins with food go way beyond flavoring. In fact, it was first used as a method of preservation. Only in recent times, though, has this one ingredient found its way onto some of the country's best cocktail bar menus.

The ingredient?

A chocolate pyramid? Yes please. Check out this submission to the February 2011 Deep Plate exercise from Executive Chef Val Fortin of the Sugar Hill Inn in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire.