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    Not your mom's steak tartare or charcuterie plate

    When charcuterie pops up on the menu, we think cold carefully cured meat. But at Norah in West Hollywood, chef Mike Williams has broadened the definition to include pescatarian, raw and vegan options. The seafood charcuterie plate features smoked trout, octopus and shrimp.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 6, 2016 • 1 min read

    When charcuterie pops up on the menu, we think cold carefully cured meat. But at Norah in West Hollywood, chef Mike Williams has broadened the definition to include pescatarian, raw and vegan options. The seafood charcuterie plate features smoked trout, octopus and shrimp. Chickpea sausage, mushroom carpaccio and cauliflower tartare make appearances on the vegetable charcuterie plate.

    Since cauliflower is available now at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market in all its glorious forms — snow white, cheddar, purple and romanesco — Laura Avery peruses the selection at the Tamai Family Farms' stand for this week's market report. You can find Williams' cauliflower tartare recipe on the Good Food blog. But fair warning: this is not your mom's steak tartare or charcuterie plate.

    Music: "A Shot in the Dark (Cowboy Music)"

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    In the salad lab, cauliflower tartare, Thai Oolong tea
    1. 1:39In the salad lab with Kenji López-Alt
    2. 9:40Not your mom's steak tartare or charcuterie plateYou’re reading this
    3. 16:47Eat Wuxi-style food with Jonathan Gold at Long Xing Ji
    4. 22:20Taiwanese oolong tea in Thailand
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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      Camellia Tse

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    The full episode

    2 of 4
    In the salad lab, cauliflower tartare, Thai Oolong tea
    1. 1:39In the salad lab with Kenji López-Alt
    2. 9:40Not your mom's steak tartare or charcuterie plateYou’re reading this
    3. 16:47Eat Wuxi-style food with Jonathan Gold at Long Xing Ji
    4. 22:20Taiwanese oolong tea in Thailand
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