Foie feast follows famine

I mentioned previously that I was fond of foie gras and intended to have some while I was in Carcassonne for the weekend. For some reason or other, you can't just buy it in ordinary supermarkets here and it had been a while since I had some of that gluttonous goose liver goodness. Since I managed to satisfy my 'gras jones, however, it's been Foie-Fest 2006 round these parts. I took the opportunity to take a few tins home and then, while dining with Mrs McG on the occasion of her birthday last Saturday, was "gras-tified" to see on the menu at the newly opened Rosso a starter: terrine of foie gras and duck confit. It was delicious and at €9.50, pretty good value: you'd be doing well to get an equivalent amount of the stuff in a tin for that.

Comments

[Tony Allwright]

Go to Budapest. That's the best and cheapest place for foie gras these days. And it's available everywhere.

But, for the sake of not spoiling your enjoyment, don't spare even a thought about the lifetime of force-feeding torture inflicted on the unfortunate goose.

As Andrew Sullivan illustrated, Christians will find that easier to ignore than atheists.

Bon appetit.

[Frank McGahon]

I was in Budapest last year and took home some Magyar 'Gras, it wasn't bad, but I prefer the French stuff. Oh, and I'm not at all bothered by the forcefed goose. When it comes to animal "rights" I'm quite the bigoted species-ist.