![pear granite pear granite](http://www.jamesbeard.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pear-granite-blog.jpg)
Chef Jason Parsons surprised guests with this extra course at last Thursday's Beard House dinner. He combined pear juice and icewine to create a tart granité, and garnished the intermezzo with flower petals, gold flakes, and a delicate twig from an icewine vine.
See more photos of Parsons's elegant menu here.
(Photo by Geoff Mottram)