The carpaccio - translucent slices of pleasantly mild raw meat - is buffalo, not beef.

The translucent slices look handsome laid out on a big plate, with capers, finely chopped onion and sieved eggs scattered across their surface like confetti.

Swiftly, deftly, the old man turned the whole fruit into translucent slices.

Gorgeously translucent slices of tuna are served lightly breaded and very rare, with a pair of pretty chili sauces.

Hirami is translucent slices of fluke arranged in a star pattern on the plate and served with a vinegar-based dipping sauce.

Only the discerning will realize that the translucent slices of a crunchy, gelatinous substance are, in fact, pigs' ears.

These include halibut carpaccio, a thin, almost translucent slice of fish topped with osetra caviar and diced cucumber.

Like prosciutto, it must be cut on a rotary slicing machine to get the requisite ultra-thin, almost translucent slices; a knife simply will not do.

It is, for instance, not arduous to cut cucumbers into wafer-thin, nearly translucent slices as Young requires for the Indian cucumber salad included here.

First he revved up the meat slicer and shaved exquisitely thin, translucent slices of prosciutto off the bone.