Inside Wolfgang Puck's 20th Governors Ball
After the Oscars, celebrities attend the elaborate Governors Ball, where chef Wolfgang Puck dazzles their palates with delicacies like black truffles, edible gold, and caviar. This year marks his 20th year as the chef of the event, and he has outdone himself! Take a look at all the close-up images of the food and drinks that will be served.
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Hors d'Oeuvres
A few hors d'oeuvres include vegan taro root and avocado tacos, Oscar-shaped salmon with caviar, and white bean quinoa cakes with roasted pepper.
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Sushi and Seafood Station
Guests will have plenty of sushi, oysters, shrimp, and stone crab claws to choose from at the sushi and seafood station.
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Salmon
One of the new dishes served this year is wild salmon with ginger and almonds.
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Truffles
Many dishes receive a generous shaving of black truffles like the pasta with roasted chestnuts, the macaroni and cheese, and the chicken pot pie.
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Main Attractions
Take a look at that truffle mac and cheese, mixed vegetable salad, and salmon.
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Asian Inspiration
Wolfgang Puck stir-fried a seafood curry to be served with white rice. He is famous for his Asian-Californian cuisine.
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Sweet Endings
The dessert spread includes it all: truffles, cupcakes, panna cotta, parfait, and cake.
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Gold-Dusted Chocolates
Wolfgang spares no expense. Many of the desserts will be coated in 24k gold dust.
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Panna Cotta
The topping for the citrus panna cotta is gold-dusted chocolate popcorn.
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Edible Garden
The "caramel garden" features coffee "soil," a malted chocolate tree, and fleur de sel.
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Cheesecake Pops
Rather than cake pops, Wolfgang and his team created these chocolate-dipped strawberry cheesecake pops.
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Wolfgang's Chocolate Oscars
The chef proudly displayed his golden chocolate Oscars.
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Hollywood Cake
The big dessert attraction is the Hollywood Marjolaine cake, a French layered cake with hazelnut sponge cake, coffee cream, and chocolate ganache.
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Other Desserts
Even vegans will be able to enjoy dessert. Wolfgang has prepared vegan chocolate and carrot cupcakes, plus a gluten-free almond cream cupcake.