Foie Gras
What is your opinion of foie gras? To me it is a tough one as sometimes it is questioned morally and ethically. I do have to confess I have eaten it at Aqua in San Francisco and enjoyed it. As a cook...
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As Patrick has rightly said, the cubes were gelatin. They can also be pinot noir, but given the region I would suspect a pinot gris. The white stuff in the dish is horseradish. I have to admit it was...
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I love foie gras, but will admit to feeling a bit of guilt when I occassionally eat it. I hate the cruelty to the geese, but on the other hand I figure that my not eating it isn't really going to...
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Gout in a tin? Where is that back-of-the-head-scratching emoticon? What arthritis has to do with animal liver? If this is the cause of gout, we can get Nobel Prize!
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Don't ever let a Frenchman hear you refer to foie gras as pate! They are 2 different things, there is foie gras and then there is a pate made with foie gras and other ingredients.! David made that...
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Thanks for the info Jody, I never knew what the difference was between Foie Gras and Pate!! Have never been to France either Have only eaten Pate, some wonderful and some not so good. Guess it...
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Sharrk, I'm too lazy to look it up to confirm right now, but I believe one of the causes of gout or possibly something that exacerbates the symptoms is too much rich food. That's why it was thought to...
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As a former sufferer of gout who takes Allipurinol to prevent it, let me say that yes, foie gras would be a major contributor. Others are any organ meats, cured meats like ham or bacon, turkey,...
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The longer I hang out on this website, the shorter is my food list No more huh? Hello Allopurinol
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I generally prefer partially heat denatured bovine paraspinous muscles from the costal area, au jus.
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As long as Dick can shoot Quail, I'm eating Foie Gras guilt-free. (Sorry, I just couldn't resist.)I really dislike extremists. I'm not fond of ignorance, either. Displaced love seems sad to me. I...
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Suggested bumper sticker: Foie gras, the ultimate in liver. Of course, Mrs. DoctorLew won't eat liver or even eat with me if I eat liver. Hence the coagulated mammoflesh aforementioned. By the way,...
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I like liver in any shape or form.I make a tasty, quick and easy Chicken liver Pate but last year in Montreal we visited a restaurant in Place Jacques Cartier called Jardin Nelson they had the most...
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NYsnob, we should dine together sometime. The topic of our discussion can be my motto: "I am a vegetarian not because I love animals, I am a vergetarian because I hate plants"
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pkay, getting off topic hereNYCTS, have you ever seen those fur protesters at a rally wearing leather shoes, belts, gloves, etc. How can you protest against fur but wear leather?Eat or don't eat what...
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Oh, I had some wonderful dishes in the Dordogne that featured foie gras...but I didn't visit one of the farms where you can see how it is made. Some things I simply don't need to see.
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