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Foie gras — or fattened liver of a duck or goose — is a delicacy in French cooking. Farmers produce the food by force-feeding ...

This Christmas start your lunch with foie gras before moving on to the rest of the traditionally ordained menu. For this time ...

A successful citywide campaign to remove foie gras (fattened duck or goose liver) from local restaurant menus is increasingly garnering attention. Earlier this week, Jacqueline Bonanno, the co-owner ...

Christmas dinner in France makes good on a promise to dine very well, offering everything from extravagant seafood platters ...

China is becoming an increasingly powerful producer of luxury foods, supplying domestic consumers with once-rare delicacies and in some cases breaking into overseas markets. The world’s second-largest ...

Where do you draw the line on what you will and will not eat? If you follow a restrictive diet, either by choice or medical necessity, your line leaves little wiggle room. Vegans won’t eat Cheddary ...

In short order, the status of foie gras has slipped from prized delicacy to unhealthy fat food to politically incorrect contraband. Now, to deal with the loss, a few enterprising chefs are plating a ...

Torchon refers to the cooking method in which the French delicacy foie gras is deveined, wrapped in a light towel, and poached. When it’s done, the foie gras is lightly spreadable and deliciously rich ...

California lawmakers have announced they plan to enforce a 2004 law that bans the production and sale of foie gras. Animal rights activists petitioned for the duck relief, citing it as “an inhumane ...

Before you make reservations for that upcoming all–foie gras dinner in Napa next Monday night at a local restaurant, please be aware that foie gras is a dish produced by force-feeding a duck or goose ...

Jockeys Ricardo Santana, Jr. (4) riding Mr. Butch and Alberto Pusac (6) riding God's Country round a curve during the 5th ...