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Article: Proposed Ban Concerns Foie Gras Supplier
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- October 1, 2006
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NEWARK, N.J. - Some of the choicest delicacies found in American restaurants sit amid 40,000 square feet of refrigerated space near downtown Newark. Crates of wild mushrooms - shiitake, morel and porcini - will leave the warehouse of D'Artagnan, a supplier and distributor of high-end food products, to end up in many of the country's top kitchens and retail stores.
The company's vast warehouse, kept at 32 degrees, stores quail from Griggstown, N.J.; free-range organic chicken from Mennonite farmers in Bucks County, Pa.; and Berkshire pork from the Ozark mountains. Other shelves are stacked with packages of duck confit, truffle butter and terrines of foie gras, a controversial fowl liver ...