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Roast fillet of veal with wild mushrooms.	White chocolate mousse with raspberries and pistachio creme anglaise.
	Michel Roux's lobster and tabouleh salad. Chablis Grand Cru Bourgos, 2001, Jean-Marc Brocard.	White bean and oregano soup.
Roast guinea fowl with truffle stuffing, truffle and cepe reduction and potatoes fondantes. Chateau du Tertre, 1996, Grand Cru Classe, Margaux.	* Vineet Bhatia's chocolate silky torte with pine kernels, cashew and pistachio nut brittle served with raspberry sorbet. Chateau Filhot, 1998, Grand Cru Classe, Sauternes.

* The collarbone of a woman: Fragile, smooth and sculpted, the collarbone is a halfway-house between the cleavage (its less subtle cousin) and the neck, en route to the cheek and finally the mouth. Glimpsed under the open neck of a shirt, it is an intimation of feminine grace and beauty that can never be matched by an exposed navel or protrading thong.[(C) Esquire - Feb/2004]