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Foie Freedom

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

A note on a card at Harpoon Bay Restaurant in Warwick, NY A note about foie gras: (“fwa grah”) Foie gras has had a great deal of undeserved bad press over the past few years. Some animal rights groups, who may be well intended, but are regrettably misinformed , fail to differentiate between ...

Can you label one and not the other?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Yes it's restaurants like McDonald's and their super-smiley I'm Loving It campaigns that lure in the masses and fatten them up, but is making them slap up calorie counts and nutritional information just because they're large, easy to hit targets, fair? Certainly I'm no fan of large scale chain restaurants but ...

In Defense of Ian

Friday, January 18th, 2008

An open letter to Kimberly McClelland... I am in constant shock that foie gras raises so much attention. With the CAFO feedlots of Iowa filled with hogs bread specifically for their docility and stupidity so they do not eat the nubs of each others tails while going mad, if the true goal ...

How Much Foie Gras…

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

This is completely random, but while I was out running today I was thinking about how horribly high in fat and as a result calories a lot of gourmet foods are. Specifically I was thinking of foie gras -- something that has to be towards the top -- and just ...

Blogs: Chefs > Food Ethics > Farmers

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Not that I want you scurrying away from my site, but I recently added a few blogs to my RSS feeds and thought a few were worth mentioning: Line Cook was started recently by the obvious: a line cook. He lives in San Francisco and I find it pretty interesting. ...