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Article: Restaurateurs See Faux Pas in Ban on Foie Gras [Correction 8/29/06]
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- The Washington Post
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- August 23, 2006
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Don't come between foodies and their foie gras.
That was the message sent by Chicago diners who dug into foie
gras dishes Monday, on the eve of the city's ban on foie gras taking
effect. High-end restaurants had special foie gras tastings to
protest the ban, and even a few down-home sandwich and pizza joints
added it to their menus for the occasion.
At the 676 Restaurant & Bar on Chicago's Magnificent Mile, chef
Robert Gadsby topped foie gras with Pop Rocks candies, wrapped it in
prosciutto and blended it into hot chocolate as part of an "Outlaw
Dinner" that also featured such controversial ingredients as wild
morels, absinthe, unpasteurized imported cheese and hemp seeds.
While the ...