1.   At Prune, the chef and owner, Gabrielle Hamilton, has turned smoked sable into sable butter.

2.   He also serves an amuse-gueule of finely chopped beets topped with smoked sable.

3.   In the middle of his exquisite cucumber yogurt soup scented with lemon grass is a lovely mound of thinly sliced smoked sable atop bits of finely diced cucumber.

4.   Potato salad with smoked sable at Verbena in downtown Manhattan.

5.   Sandy Ingber, the executive chef at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal, grew up on smoked sable.