America has recently banned French foie-gras: apparently it is not up to scratch.
Wolfgang Puck is a villain because he caved in to anti foie-gras pressure, and eliminated the item from his menus.
Foie-gras production can be a form of abuse but is not necessarily so, for an enlarged liver can still be healthy.
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With last-minute demand, California's only foie gras farm, Sonoma-Artisan Foie Gras, is essentially sold out, says owner Guillermo Gonzalez.
Seven cooks, including a pastry chef, under the management of kitchen maestro Jutamas Theantae, formerly of the venerable Mandarin Oriental in Chiang Mai, toil away to prepare exquisite French-Asian fusion dishes--foie gras and truffle miso soup, anyone?
One thousand calories at McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) doesn't taste the same as 1, 000-calorie foie gras.
Quail, frog-legs, shots of frothy foie gras and buttery shallots served out of bowl-sized ivory shells very Birth of Venus made a lasting impression.
Through regulations, it can compel banks and other financial firms to buy its own debt, much like geese being force-fed for foie gras.
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His delectable Hibachi Grilled Peking Duck served with your choice of foie gras in moo-shu skin or caviar friend rice will leave you craving more.
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For a start, given the ingredients that typically adorn a three-star menu foie gras, caviar, the finest fish and the choicest cuts of meat eating at a top-rated establishment would empty most wallets regardless of the setting.
Between bites of coriander-scented lamb or squab with foie gras, take in the iconic Wrigley Building clock tower and Tribune Tower through the 30-foot floor-to-ceiling windows.
Japanese remember foie gras as a high-priced luxury of the bubble-economy years.
Then you can walk down the steps and have a pleasant lunch and justify the second glass of cold Bergerac wine by virtue of having to pedal all the way back to Treyne in time for Champagne cocktails on the patio and one last death-defying inhalation of foie gras.
The fowl are raised in an ethically and ecologically sound manner, and the geese are not force-fed to produce the foie gras on offer.
For dessert, have the deep-fried FoieGoreos (Oreos with foie gras icing), of course!
The daytime menu playfully combines high- and low-brow food with inventive dishes like foie gras and cherry compote pop tarts, and biscuits and lamb sausage gravy.
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Try the foie gras, the escargots, the potage Saint-Germain and the souffls -- all wonderful. l The Oak Room -- Plaza Hotel, 768 Fifth Ave.
Dr Molette and her colleagues raised 150 male mule ducks (a cross between Pekin and Muscovy ducks that is often used to produce foie gras) for 13 weeks in standard poultry-house conditions and then transferred them into individual enclosures.
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Last month, she was walking her boxer and two Chihuahuas in Buena Vista Park with a friend while they discussed an impending state ban on foie gras, pate made from the livers of force-fed geese and ducks.
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At the center was a wheel-shaped ballotine of chicken, inlaid with chicken liver, foie gras and Louisiana crayfish.
Businesses of all types were affected, from fine dining restaurants in Asia that were unable to receive their foie gras shipments from Paris, to the recipients of U.S.-bound contracts stuck on grounded FedEx planes at Heathrow.
Diners praise the six-course tasting menu, which covers culinary ground with everything from a local foie gras to chef Giovanni Apollo's masterful chocolate dessert creations.
Quebecois chef Martin Picard, who was born just outside of Montreal, has earned a reputation for bad-boy interpretations of classic Canadian dishes such as poutine (which he tops with foie gras) and a shepherd's pie made with venison.
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But foie gras producers say they're being targeted by people whose ultimate goal is a meat-free world.
Start with savouries such as smoked pastrami salmon sticks or peanut butter maple bacon dates at the upstairs Treehouse Bar, then descend to dine on specialties such as potted duck and foie gras served in a jar, pork chops served with cumin bacon and mango chutney, or dry-aged steaks.
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