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Article: Chicago overturns ban on foie gras in restaurants
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- May 14, 2008
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Dining on foie gras _ a delicacy made of duck and goose liver _ will soon be legal again in Chicago.
The City Council on Wednesday repealed its two-year-old ban on the gourmet dish, drawing dissent from animal rights activists who consider foie gras cruel because the birds are force-fed to make their livers bigger.
But there were no worries in chef Didier Durand's restaurant, Cyrano's Bistrot.
"All of us are so excited," Durand told reporters as he held his pet duck, Nicolai, named after French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "People miss it. They used to go to the suburbs to get foie gras and stopped going to specifically French restaurants."
Durand was ...