The kitchen receives high marks for its appetizer of duck ravioli, delicate pasta pockets stuffed with minced duck in a dark, rich port wine sauce with a topper of julienned duck, onions and mushrooms.

Recommended Dishes: Vegetable soup, roasted peppers, shrimp remoulade, lobster mousse, duck ravioli, swordfish, salmon, rack of lamb, veal chop, chicken breast, beef tenderloins, chocolate mousse cake, strawberries with green peppercorns.

Appetizers include ahi and hamachi carpaccio with micro greens and Asian cucumber salad; Florida conch tempura with green mango and red ginger coulis; and duck ravioli with meat jus.

For about $30 - food included - students learn to whip up duck ravioli with brown butter sauce, chocolate-chip biscotti and other such delights.

Pumpkin and duck ravioli ($12) came in a puddle of creamy sauce, an all-beige dish that was as bland as it looked.

Ms. Forley favors exotic combinations like duck ravioli with mushrooms in mushroom broth.

Now, buffalo, rabbit, wild boar, venison, moulard duck foie gras, alligator-corn fritters and Muscovy duck ravioli are mainstays.

The island's feisty cuisine provides the inspiration for such wonderful dishes as duck ravioli in mushroom sauce and fresh blueberries, and spaghetti with sautéed sea urchin, garlic and red chili.

Other featured appetizers include braised duck ravioli in a shallot-and-thyme infusion with white asparagus, and wild mushroom ragout with a pairing of ricotta gnocchi.

About a year ago, the old menu was retired and replaced by one carrying many food fashions of the day, from duck ravioli to lemon mousse.