Foie Gras News

In recent months Kerry Kennedy, a scion of America's mighty Kennedy family, has been fuming about foie gras.

It may be a cool spring in Paris, but the bistro scene is hot as ever. These five newcomers, each with its own distinct ambiance and character, have generated enough buzz to earn them pride of place on the Paris gourmet radar.

Though we stopped it in its tracks last year, the U.S. House of Representatives will again consider an amendment to Congress' Farm Bill that would block states' efforts to reduce the suffering of animals killed for food.

The restaurant 4Fourteen in Sidney, Australia is offering an egg sandwich for $120. The $120 egg sandwich has many "extras" not found on other egg sandwiches.

A $120 egg sandwich is being offered by 4Fourteen in Australia, according to a May 12 report by UPI .

The menu is “prix fixe,” which is a collection of predetermined items presented as a multi-course meal at a set price.

Hello vegans , vegetarians and those repulsed by the thought of eating a part of an animal that reminds you that it came from an animal: we'd just like to warn you now, this is not your post! You're welcome to continue reading, but we're diving deep into the variety meats that get left behind after the premium cuts have been claimed, for some of ... (more)

An egg sandwich would rank pretty low in an ordered list of expensive sandwiches.

The Pretenders star Chrissie Hynde is boycotting a luxury London department store until bosses promise to stop selling foie gras.

Her support comes as Peta awards Fortnum & Mason the Cruellest Retailer accolade for its trade in foie gras.

Melbourne, May 12: The head chef of an Australian restaurant has created a 120-dollar egg and bacon roll, which she herself isn't sure if she'd eat it or not.

Browse the menu at Alexandria's Bastille , and you'll find a number of selections that span the wine spectrum from red to white.

If, however, your taste runs to inventive tapas-style dishes with a preponderance of seafood meant to be shared over exotic cocktails, have we got the bote for you! Best: sake-cured salmon gravlax over blocks of eggy tamago on a bed of horseradish crme frache showered with a julienne of toasted nori, a stack of buckwheat blinis on the side; ... (more)

The first thing to come to the minds of many when they hear the term "Israeli cuisine" is probably bagels and lox.

Footage from Hudson Valley factory, N.Y., shows ducks being force-fed large amounts of grain through steel tubes three times a day Gordon Ramsay has been accused of double standards after footage emerged of 'shocking cruelty' at a foie gras factory which supplies one of his licensed restaurants Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has come under fire after ... (more)

PETA has sent a letter to Roland Passot, the owner of San Francisco restaurant La Folie, cautioning him that PETA will pursue legal avenues if the restaurant continues foie gras sales in violation of California's ban on selling the product.

Animal rights campaigners are urging Gordon Ramsay to stop serving foie gras at his New York restaurant The London after exposing cruel practices at a factory farm, which supplies the top chef with his pate, in a harrowing new video.

On Tuesday, May 21st, Rob's Bistro , 75 Main Street, Madison, New Jersey, will prepare a special four-course wine dinner featuring the award-winning Cal-Italia wines of Domenico Winery .

To produce down pillows, comforters, or jackets, birds are often pinned down as hurried workers yank fistfuls of feathers from the birds' sensitive bodies while they are still alive, often plucking them so violently that they rip open the birds' delicate skin before sewing up the gaping wounds using a needle and thread, without any painkillers.

This recipe is just one of Chef Chris Bowman's ways to prepare foie gras, a now verboten product in California.