The rustic and cosy onsite restaurant, La Monnaguette, serves local specialties that employ his star ingredient, such as goat-cheese salad with blackcurrant coulis or duck confit with cassis jam.

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In the Valais region, an arc that runs along the French and Italian borders and home to the Matterhorn, the local fondue variety calls for a tomato coulis.

WSJ: In Search Of: Switzerland's Best Fondue

Presented with a ridiculous dessert in a restaurant one night shortly before his last child was born, the 84-year-old Nobel laureate contemplated a circle of perfectly measured blobs of fruit coulis.

ECONOMIST: Obituary: Saul Bellow | The

An artist was what he had really wanted to be, and he had simply transferred his painterly feelings to stroking the rich glaze on a shank of lamb, or dashing his signature in a passion-fruit coulis.

ECONOMIST: Santi Santamar��a