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Her books include The Art of Vintage Cocktails (Egg & Dart Press), World of Doughnuts (Egg & Dart Press); Kids in the Kitchen: Fun Food (Williams Sonoma); Honey from Flower to Table (Chronicle Books) and The Astrology Cookbook: A Cosmic Guide to Feasts of Love (Manic D Press). She has studied organic farming at UCSC and holds a certificate in Ecological Horticulture from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. She does frequent cooking demonstrations at local farmers’ markets and has taught food writing at Media Alliance in San Francisco and the Continuing Education program at Stanford University. She has been the lead restaurant critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian as well as for San Francisco magazine. She has been an assistant chef at the Headlands Center for the Arts, an artists' residency program located in the Marin Headlands, and a production cook at the Marin Sun Farms Cafe in Pt Reyes Station. 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Last week, a federal judge overturned California's ban on the dish. Photo: Eric Risberg/AP \" width=\"1000\" height=\"692\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92100\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karlene Bley of Los Angeles spreads her torchon of foie gras onto bread during lunch at the Presidio Social Club restaurant in San Francisco. Last week, a federal judge overturned California's ban on the dish. Photo: Eric Risberg/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/349243304/sam-sanders\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Sanders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/14/377304610/after-foie-gras-ban-lifted-in-california-some-chefs-face-threats\" target=\"_blank\">The Two-Way\u003c/a>, NPR News 91/14/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Wednesday, a federal judge overturned California's ban on the sale of foie gras, the delicacy made from the livers of fatty ducks and geese that have often been force-fed. The ban was approved by California voters in 2004, and went into effect in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the ban was overturned, some chefs using foie gras in their menus have been receiving threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Chaney of Hot's Kitchen in Hermosa Beach, Calif., one of the restaurants involved in the case that overturned the ban, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/01/10/376381103/in-california-fois-gras-is-back-on-the-menu\">spoke with NPR's Arun Rath\u003c/a> one day after the ban was lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Apparently there's some people out there that, really, they just, they'll kill me,\" Chaney said. \"But I can't kill an animal that's raised for this?\" He continued, \"You know, it goes with it. I'm OK with it. I'm not really too worried about a bunch of people that sit in their dark room writing threats to me. If they want, come on down to the restaurant. They know where I'm at.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of them are willing to sit quiet for a minute with a protest sign,\" says Chaney's attorney Michael Tenenbaum. \"Other ones take to the Internet and issue death threats, as we saw today, with somebody threatening to find him, kill him, shove a tube in him. This is craziness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaney and Tenenbaum say they've been in touch with the FBI and local law enforcement about the threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/california-foie-gras_n_6467320.html\">The Huffington Post is also reporting\u003c/a> that another chef in California has been receiving threats over foie gras:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"There are some describing the way they're hoping I will die,\" Ken Frank, who owns the restaurant La Toque in Napa Valley, told The Huffington Post. \"A good share of them talk about shoving a pipe up my ass or down my throat. But it's the ones who would like to see me hung by my feet and bled to death with no anesthetic — those are the most disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, have organized protests in support of a foie gras ban, and the organization sent the following statement to HuffPost after learning about the threats:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"PETA is skeptical of the claim that threats are being made. Anyone who's desperate enough to want to serve up the diseased, fatty livers of tortured birds is certainly not above making up a fat lie. This big macho chef needs to 'man up' and recognize that part of being a man means having a heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/08/375926061/out-of-the-shadows-and-onto-menus-foie-gras-is-back-in-california\">As we've previously reported\u003c/a>, it's still illegal to produce foie gras in California, even though last week's ruling makes it legal to sell the product in the state. And even during California's statewide ban on the dish, many chefs just gave it away for free from their kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A ban on the controversial delicacy that went into effect in 2012 was overturned last week. Now some chefs offering the dish have received enough threats to get law enforcement involved.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1421348376,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":535},"headData":{"title":"After Foie Gras Ban Lifted In California, Some Chefs Face Threats | KQED","description":"A ban on the controversial delicacy that went into effect in 2012 was overturned last week. 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Last week, a federal judge overturned California's ban on the dish. Photo: Eric Risberg/AP \" width=\"1000\" height=\"692\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92100\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karlene Bley of Los Angeles spreads her torchon of foie gras onto bread during lunch at the Presidio Social Club restaurant in San Francisco. Last week, a federal judge overturned California's ban on the dish. Photo: Eric Risberg/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/349243304/sam-sanders\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Sanders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/14/377304610/after-foie-gras-ban-lifted-in-california-some-chefs-face-threats\" target=\"_blank\">The Two-Way\u003c/a>, NPR News 91/14/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Wednesday, a federal judge overturned California's ban on the sale of foie gras, the delicacy made from the livers of fatty ducks and geese that have often been force-fed. The ban was approved by California voters in 2004, and went into effect in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the ban was overturned, some chefs using foie gras in their menus have been receiving threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Chaney of Hot's Kitchen in Hermosa Beach, Calif., one of the restaurants involved in the case that overturned the ban, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/01/10/376381103/in-california-fois-gras-is-back-on-the-menu\">spoke with NPR's Arun Rath\u003c/a> one day after the ban was lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Apparently there's some people out there that, really, they just, they'll kill me,\" Chaney said. \"But I can't kill an animal that's raised for this?\" He continued, \"You know, it goes with it. I'm OK with it. I'm not really too worried about a bunch of people that sit in their dark room writing threats to me. If they want, come on down to the restaurant. They know where I'm at.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of them are willing to sit quiet for a minute with a protest sign,\" says Chaney's attorney Michael Tenenbaum. \"Other ones take to the Internet and issue death threats, as we saw today, with somebody threatening to find him, kill him, shove a tube in him. This is craziness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaney and Tenenbaum say they've been in touch with the FBI and local law enforcement about the threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/california-foie-gras_n_6467320.html\">The Huffington Post is also reporting\u003c/a> that another chef in California has been receiving threats over foie gras:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"There are some describing the way they're hoping I will die,\" Ken Frank, who owns the restaurant La Toque in Napa Valley, told The Huffington Post. \"A good share of them talk about shoving a pipe up my ass or down my throat. But it's the ones who would like to see me hung by my feet and bled to death with no anesthetic — those are the most disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, have organized protests in support of a foie gras ban, and the organization sent the following statement to HuffPost after learning about the threats:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"PETA is skeptical of the claim that threats are being made. Anyone who's desperate enough to want to serve up the diseased, fatty livers of tortured birds is certainly not above making up a fat lie. This big macho chef needs to 'man up' and recognize that part of being a man means having a heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/08/375926061/out-of-the-shadows-and-onto-menus-foie-gras-is-back-in-california\">As we've previously reported\u003c/a>, it's still illegal to produce foie gras in California, even though last week's ruling makes it legal to sell the product in the state. And even during California's statewide ban on the dish, many chefs just gave it away for free from their kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/92099/after-foie-gras-ban-lifted-in-california-some-chefs-face-threats","authors":["byline_bayareabites_92099"],"categories":["bayareabites_63","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_1786","bayareabites_13595","bayareabites_11465"],"featImg":"bayareabites_92100","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_54928":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_54928","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"54928","score":null,"sort":[1358879791000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fancy-food-show-trends-and-slideshow","title":"Fancy Food Show Trends and Slideshow","publishDate":1358879791,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-78.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-78.jpg\" title=\"Chris Cosentino doing a demo at Fermin's booth\" alt=\"Chris Cosentino doing a demo at Fermin's booth\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54931\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.specialtyfood.com/fancy-food-show/\">Fancy Food Show\u003c/a> hit Moscone on Sunday for its annual massive three-day schmooze fest of specialty and gourmet goods. With 80,000 products shown from 35+ countries and regions, it is the largest marketplace devoted exclusively to specialty foods and beverages on the West Coast. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strategically avoiding the crowds that formed around every booth with a TV tuned in to the Niners game, we were able to taste an impressive amount of samples from this year’s exhibitors. Here are some trends we picked up on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Superfood Mania \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-7.jpg\" alt=\"Raw Superfruit Mix from Extreme Health USA\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54950\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We saw proclaimed superfoods like goji, quinoa, and chia seeds in everything from snack mixes to breakfast cereals, pastas, and energy drinks. Despite some unfortunate branding for a few of these products (I’m looking at you, \u003ca href=\"http://holycrap.com/\">Holy Crap Breakfast Cereal\u003c/a>), most of it tasted surprisingly good. In particular, we were fans of the \u003cstrong>Raw Superfruit Mix\u003c/strong> from \u003ca href=\"http://www.extremehealthusa.com/\">Extreme Health USA\u003c/a>. It was a hefty, chewy mix of organic goji berries, mulberries, golden berries, and blueberries. The golden berries were a first for me. Also called Incan Berry, they have a sweet, tart, grapefruit-like flavor that play well with their other super friends in the mix. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Coconut Everything\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-56.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-56.jpg\" alt=\"Dang Coconut Chips\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54952\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was virtually impossible to go a few steps without running into a coconut something or other. There were coconut oils, coconut beverages, coconut ice cream, coconut chips, even coconut cheese. The most addictive iteration of these coconutty goods was \u003ca href=\"http://www.dangfoods.com/\">Dang Coconut Chips\u003c/a>. Before the branding police raises an eyebrow, let it be known that Dang is named after the company founder’s mother. The chips are made from ripe coconut meat, toasted with a touch of sugar and salt until the intense, golden coconut flavor is baked in. Mixed with granola, sprinkled over yogurt, a salad, or eaten by the handful, it would be easy to demolish an entire bag of these coconut chips. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Anti-Potato Chip\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-21.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-21.jpg\" alt=\"Brad's Raw Leafy Kale\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54951\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole healthy snacks thing was really prominent this year. Between all the kale chips, and lentil chips, and fruit chips, and seaweed snacks I saw, I was beginning to wonder what a girl had to do to get an old-fashioned potato chip around here. Before I had time to mourn the spud for long, the “Kale is Kool” Kids had me surrounded. I was powerless against their enthusiasm and vitamin-charged perkiness. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradsrawchips.com/products/vampire-killer\">Brad’s Raw Leafy Kale\u003c/a> in the \u003cstrong>Vampire Killer\u003c/strong> flavor (a savory, garlicky delight) had me chanting “Kale is Kool” for a good minute or two. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Gluten-Free Goods\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-133.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-133.jpg\" alt=\"Béquet Caramel\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54953\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gluten-free friends were not short-changed at the Fancy Food Show. Pretzels and shortbread cookies from \u003ca href=\"http://gratifyfoods.com/\">Gratify Foods\u003c/a> could have fooled me. \u003ca href=\"http://bixbyco.com/\">Bixby & Co\u003c/a>’s \u003cstrong>To The Nines\u003c/strong> white chocolate bar was fragrant with cardamom and had crunch factor from pistachios, almonds, and puffed rice. And if it is decadence you’re looking for, turn to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bequetconfections.com/\">Béquet Caramel\u003c/a>. Hand crafted in small batches in Montana, these soft buttery caramels are sinfully rich and utterly delicious. All their flavors were fantastic (I did my due diligence and tried about six of them…see how committed I am to you), but the sleeper hit was the \u003cstrong>Cinnamon Swirl\u003c/strong>. The cinnamon flavor was deep, with an almost baked-in flavor to it, perfectly complementing the buttery vanilla caramel. For gluten-free folks, if you’ve ever craved a hot cinnamon roll, this may just do the trick. \u003cstrong>Béquet’s Cinnamon Swirl Caramel\u003c/strong> has captured the essence of warm cinnamon roll indulgence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Untraditional Sodas\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/sodas.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/sodas.jpg\" alt=\"The Fizzary Craft and Vintage Sodas\" width=\"1000\" height=\"916\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54954\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fizzy drinks had a comeback this year with a large selection of interestingly flavored carbonated beverages. \u003ca href=\"http://www.winecountrysoda.com/home.html\">Vignette\u003c/a> cornered the wine soda market, with flavors deriving from varietal wine grapes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.qdrinks.com/\">Q Drinks\u003c/a> has expanded from their hallmark tonic to ginger ale and kola. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.joialife.com/\">Joia\u003c/a> uses creative combinations of fruit, herbs, and spices (think Grapefruit Chamomile & Cardamom) to bring life to their lightly carbonated drinks. If you’re a soda aficionado in SF, check out \u003ca href=\"http://thefizzary.com/\">The Fizzary\u003c/a>, experts in acquiring and distributing craft and vintage sodas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-86.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-86-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Iberico ham from Fermin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54932\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-89.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-89-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Petite Sweets\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54933\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-128.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-128-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson Valley Foie Gras\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54966\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-95.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-95-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Black Truffles \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54934\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-69.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-69-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Why yes, that is a goat cheese sculpture (Redwood Hill Farm)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54968\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-54.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-54-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"PSY now hawking instant ramen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54930\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-125.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-125-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fra'Mani Salumi\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54940\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-121.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-121-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Afghan Saffron\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54939\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-114.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-114-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza de Caviar\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54938\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-113.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-113-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pecorino Filiano DOP\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54937\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-52.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-52-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"USA Water Polo Women's Team, Olympic gold medalists fueled by American pistachios\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54929\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-105.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-105-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Woodland Foods Spice Display\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54936\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Highlights, trends and fun photos from the 2013 Fancy Food Show. Superfood Mania, Coconut Everything, The Anti-Potato Chip, Gluten-Free Goods, Untraditional Sodas, Foie Gras, Black Truffles!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1359510586,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":694},"headData":{"title":"Fancy Food Show Trends and Slideshow | KQED","description":"Highlights, trends and fun photos from the 2013 Fancy Food Show. Superfood Mania, Coconut Everything, The Anti-Potato Chip, Gluten-Free Goods, Untraditional Sodas, Foie Gras, Black Truffles!","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Fancy Food Show Trends and Slideshow","datePublished":"2013-01-22T18:36:31.000Z","dateModified":"2013-01-30T01:49:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"54928 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=54928","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/01/22/fancy-food-show-trends-and-slideshow/","disqusTitle":"Fancy Food Show Trends and Slideshow","path":"/bayareabites/54928/fancy-food-show-trends-and-slideshow","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-78.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-78.jpg\" title=\"Chris Cosentino doing a demo at Fermin's booth\" alt=\"Chris Cosentino doing a demo at Fermin's booth\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54931\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.specialtyfood.com/fancy-food-show/\">Fancy Food Show\u003c/a> hit Moscone on Sunday for its annual massive three-day schmooze fest of specialty and gourmet goods. With 80,000 products shown from 35+ countries and regions, it is the largest marketplace devoted exclusively to specialty foods and beverages on the West Coast. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strategically avoiding the crowds that formed around every booth with a TV tuned in to the Niners game, we were able to taste an impressive amount of samples from this year’s exhibitors. Here are some trends we picked up on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Superfood Mania \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-7.jpg\" alt=\"Raw Superfruit Mix from Extreme Health USA\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54950\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We saw proclaimed superfoods like goji, quinoa, and chia seeds in everything from snack mixes to breakfast cereals, pastas, and energy drinks. Despite some unfortunate branding for a few of these products (I’m looking at you, \u003ca href=\"http://holycrap.com/\">Holy Crap Breakfast Cereal\u003c/a>), most of it tasted surprisingly good. In particular, we were fans of the \u003cstrong>Raw Superfruit Mix\u003c/strong> from \u003ca href=\"http://www.extremehealthusa.com/\">Extreme Health USA\u003c/a>. It was a hefty, chewy mix of organic goji berries, mulberries, golden berries, and blueberries. The golden berries were a first for me. Also called Incan Berry, they have a sweet, tart, grapefruit-like flavor that play well with their other super friends in the mix. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Coconut Everything\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-56.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-56.jpg\" alt=\"Dang Coconut Chips\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54952\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was virtually impossible to go a few steps without running into a coconut something or other. There were coconut oils, coconut beverages, coconut ice cream, coconut chips, even coconut cheese. The most addictive iteration of these coconutty goods was \u003ca href=\"http://www.dangfoods.com/\">Dang Coconut Chips\u003c/a>. Before the branding police raises an eyebrow, let it be known that Dang is named after the company founder’s mother. The chips are made from ripe coconut meat, toasted with a touch of sugar and salt until the intense, golden coconut flavor is baked in. Mixed with granola, sprinkled over yogurt, a salad, or eaten by the handful, it would be easy to demolish an entire bag of these coconut chips. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Anti-Potato Chip\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-21.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-21.jpg\" alt=\"Brad's Raw Leafy Kale\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54951\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole healthy snacks thing was really prominent this year. Between all the kale chips, and lentil chips, and fruit chips, and seaweed snacks I saw, I was beginning to wonder what a girl had to do to get an old-fashioned potato chip around here. Before I had time to mourn the spud for long, the “Kale is Kool” Kids had me surrounded. I was powerless against their enthusiasm and vitamin-charged perkiness. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradsrawchips.com/products/vampire-killer\">Brad’s Raw Leafy Kale\u003c/a> in the \u003cstrong>Vampire Killer\u003c/strong> flavor (a savory, garlicky delight) had me chanting “Kale is Kool” for a good minute or two. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Gluten-Free Goods\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-133.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-133.jpg\" alt=\"Béquet Caramel\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54953\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gluten-free friends were not short-changed at the Fancy Food Show. Pretzels and shortbread cookies from \u003ca href=\"http://gratifyfoods.com/\">Gratify Foods\u003c/a> could have fooled me. \u003ca href=\"http://bixbyco.com/\">Bixby & Co\u003c/a>’s \u003cstrong>To The Nines\u003c/strong> white chocolate bar was fragrant with cardamom and had crunch factor from pistachios, almonds, and puffed rice. And if it is decadence you’re looking for, turn to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bequetconfections.com/\">Béquet Caramel\u003c/a>. Hand crafted in small batches in Montana, these soft buttery caramels are sinfully rich and utterly delicious. All their flavors were fantastic (I did my due diligence and tried about six of them…see how committed I am to you), but the sleeper hit was the \u003cstrong>Cinnamon Swirl\u003c/strong>. The cinnamon flavor was deep, with an almost baked-in flavor to it, perfectly complementing the buttery vanilla caramel. For gluten-free folks, if you’ve ever craved a hot cinnamon roll, this may just do the trick. \u003cstrong>Béquet’s Cinnamon Swirl Caramel\u003c/strong> has captured the essence of warm cinnamon roll indulgence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Untraditional Sodas\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/sodas.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/sodas.jpg\" alt=\"The Fizzary Craft and Vintage Sodas\" width=\"1000\" height=\"916\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54954\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fizzy drinks had a comeback this year with a large selection of interestingly flavored carbonated beverages. \u003ca href=\"http://www.winecountrysoda.com/home.html\">Vignette\u003c/a> cornered the wine soda market, with flavors deriving from varietal wine grapes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.qdrinks.com/\">Q Drinks\u003c/a> has expanded from their hallmark tonic to ginger ale and kola. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.joialife.com/\">Joia\u003c/a> uses creative combinations of fruit, herbs, and spices (think Grapefruit Chamomile & Cardamom) to bring life to their lightly carbonated drinks. If you’re a soda aficionado in SF, check out \u003ca href=\"http://thefizzary.com/\">The Fizzary\u003c/a>, experts in acquiring and distributing craft and vintage sodas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-86.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-86-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Iberico ham from Fermin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54932\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-89.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-89-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Petite Sweets\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54933\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-128.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-128-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson Valley Foie Gras\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54966\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-95.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-95-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Black Truffles \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54934\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-69.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-69-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Why yes, that is a goat cheese sculpture (Redwood Hill Farm)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54968\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-54.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-54-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"PSY now hawking instant ramen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54930\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-125.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-125-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fra'Mani Salumi\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54940\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-121.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-121-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Afghan Saffron\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54939\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-114.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-114-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza de Caviar\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54938\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-113.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-113-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pecorino Filiano DOP\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54937\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-52.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-52-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"USA Water Polo Women's Team, Olympic gold medalists fueled by American pistachios\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54929\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-105.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/2013-01-20-fancy-food-show-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-105-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Woodland Foods Spice Display\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54936\">\u003c/a> 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href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/food-trends-20122.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/food-trends-20122.jpg\" alt=\"Food Trends 2012. Photo collage by Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Food Trends 2012. Photo collage by Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53722\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo collage by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delicious, or disgusting? The top food stories and trends of this year offered plenty of both. While the rest of the country worried about pink slime and contaminated peanuts, and dealt with the fallout of a devastating drought and a stalled farm bill, San Francisco debated its upcoming bans of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/09/last-hurrah-for-foie-gras/\">foie gras\u003c/a> and plastic shopping bags. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the year that big money and the usually New York-centric food media finally started to notice that our local food scene is no longer just \u003ca href=\"http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2009/10/ten_things_anthony_bourdain_an.html\">figs on a plate\u003c/a> or (humanely-raised) \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2009/09/03/did-nate-appleman-diss-san-francisco/\">tripe in a bowl\u003c/a> if, really, it ever was, for those of us who live and eat here every day. A few of our local stars decamped for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Citizen-Cake-s-Elizabeth-Falkner-leaving-for-N-Y-3603021.php\">Big Apple\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/13/outside-lands-2012-photos-food-art-music-people/\">Big music festivals\u003c/a> found that concert-goers now come as much for the food and drink as for the headliners, while other \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/san-francisco-street-food-festival-2012-photo-slideshow/\">food-centric street festivals\u003c/a> proved that standing in line for Korean tacos, Himalayan dumplings, or Mexican huaraches could be the main event. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coconut water and kale chips went from trendy to kiddie, and doughnuts (and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/26/east-bay-bagel-smackdown-beautys-vs-authentic-bagel-co/\">bagels\u003c/a>) became the new cupcakes, at least in the East Bay, where everyone, it seemed, opened a bakery this year. So here, looking back on a year's worth of columns from NPR, Bay Area Bites, and the rest of the media from the Bay Area and beyond, some reflections on what went right (and wrong) in food in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't They Have Chinese Food in New York City?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhat do New Yorkers really, really want? To wait in line for hours and hours, drinking free keg beer, for the chance to numb their tastebuds and sear their gullets with the likes of kung pao pastrami and pork-laden mapo tofu at what even Pete \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html\">\"Guy Fieri, You're Dead to Me\u003c/a>\" Wells called the city's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/dining/reviews/12-restaurant-triumphs-of-2012.html\">most exciting new restaurant\u003c/a>. Sorry, Gotham, but your hot ticket is our Tuesday night take-out. \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionchinesefood.com\">Mission Chinese Food\u003c/a> got its start as a quirky pop-up sharing kitchen and table space with a Mission Street Cantonese joint, and we know that \u003ca href=\"http://www.gq.com/food-travel/restaurants-and-bars/201212/danny-bowien-interview-mission-chinese-profile\">GQ darling\u003c/a> chef Danny Bowien will always love us best. Even better than those black-vinegar peanuts? That in two years, the restaurant, which donates 75 cents for every entree, has raised almost $170,000 for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sffoodbank.org/\">SF Food Bank\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take Our Plastic Bags, Take Our Foie Gras, But Hands Off Our Sodas\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile New Yorkers kvelled about \u003ca href=\"http://gothamist.com/2012/09/14/hes_not_my_nanny_new_yorkers_react.php\">\"Nanny Bloomberg's\"\u003c/a> attempt to limit their Big Gulp consumption, San Francisco took October's ordinance against plastic shopping bags in stride. A 10 cent nuisance fee for paper bags encouraged city dwellers to make reusable bags as much a part of daily baggage as cellphones and keys. And where San Fran goes, Oakland will follow: On January 1, Alameda County joins the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/12/29/alameda-county-joins-plastic-bag-ban/\">plastic bag ban\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the gavage (force-feeding) method of fattening geese and ducks became illegal in California, wiping foie gras off menus, shutting down foie gras production statewide, and inspiring a disproportionally large amount of media coverage, like this soul-searching piece by L.A. Times writer Ed Lebowitz in \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-last-days-of-foie-gras/309009/\">The Atlantic\u003c/a>. Hot on the heels of Humphry Slocombe's last-chance \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/humphryslocombe/status/211912227194806272\">foie-gras ice cream sandwiches\u003c/a> was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/restaurants/article/Presidio-Social-Club-pulls-foie-gras-3724123.php\">well-publicized attempt\u003c/a> by the Presidio Social Club to circumvent the ban. (Their argument--that the restaurant, located in the Presidio, was on federal land and thus not subject to state regulations--didn't fly, and the restaurant took foie gras off its menu shortly thereafter.) Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Richmond-Soda-Tax-177591311.html\">Richmond residents defeated Measure N\u003c/a>, a proposed penny-per-ounce tax on sodas and other high-sugar drinks, after the American Beverage Association poured over $2.5 million into a \"No on N\" campaign. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backyard Chickens Jumped the Shark\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOK, not really. We like waking up to the clucking of our blond, bosomy Buff Orpingtons just as much as the next soft-hearted urban homesteader. But when Williams-Sonoma's new \u003ca href=\"http://www.williams-sonoma.com/shop/agrarian-garden/\">Agrarian\u003c/a> catalog category started offering a \u003ca href=\"http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/reclaimed-rustic-coop-with-artwork/\">Reclaimed Rustic Chicken Coop\u003c/a>, \"built by hand using reclaimed redwood and decorated with a hand-painted rooster\" for $759.95, we did wonder if there wasn't some truth to this Deadspin writer's \u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/5959212\">hilariously bitter rant\u003c/a> about the San Francisco-based retailer. And just as you shouldn't plant veggies in untested urban soil, so you might want to consider where your cute, free-range city birds are scratching. A recent New York City study found \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/dining/worries-about-lead-for-new-yorks-garden-fresh-eggs.html\">high lead levels\u003c/a> in eggs from community-garden chickens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money Found Our Local Favorites\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nStarbucks spent $100 million to buy Bay Area-based bakery-cafe chain \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Bay-Area-s-La-Boulange-bakery-sold-to-Starbucks-3608539.php\">La Boulange\u003c/a>, while venture capitalists True Ventures and Index Ventures poured \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/business/2012/10/blue-bottle-cashes-in/\">$20 million in funding\u003c/a> into Oakland's Blue Bottle Coffee. A German conglomerate, Joh. A. Benckiser, bought Peet's for nearly $1 billion. South Park's\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/american-grilled-cheese-kitchen_n_1819013.html\"> American Grilled Cheese Kitchen\u003c/a> won a $250K grant from Chase as a winner of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/\">Mission: Small Business\u003c/a> competition. And tech money did more than just fuel impossible rents, $18 pizzas, and another round of \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/09/14/the-rise-of-the-13-cocktail/\">$13 Corpse Revivers\u003c/a>: business partners Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring poured their big software-company payoff into \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/02/10/dandelion-chocolate-raises-the-bar/\">Dandelion Chocolate\u003c/a>, a small-batch bean-to-bar operation. After starting the business in Dogpatch, they turned a former auto-repair place on Valencia Street into a full-service chocolate factory and shop just in time for holiday shopping, offering cool stuff like this \u003ca href=\"http://www.dandelionchocolate.com/2012/11/20/pirates-poems-sea-salt-chocolate/\">chapbook and chocolate combination\u003c/a>, produced with neighboring writing center \u003ca href=\"http://826valencia.org/\">826 Valencia\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And Small-Money Operations Got the Nod from Jerry Brown\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn September, Gov. Brown approved \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1616\">AB 1616\u003c/a>, the \"cottage food law\" that allows for home production and less stringent health-department regulation for typically non-hazardous foods such as bread, pastries, dry pasta, granola, jam, honey, candy, coffee beans, spice blends and more. \"Cottage food\" industries for such items now don't require a commercial kitchen, as long as the businesses don't do more than $35K/year in gross sales this year. You still can't make hot or ready-to-eat foods or highly perishable items without full regulation and a commercial kitchen, which meant that Forage SF's very popular but renegade \u003ca href=\"http://foragesf.com/market/\">Underground Market\u003c/a> ended its 3-year run with a final food blitz on December 22.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nPut a Hole in It\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe East Bay, in particular, had a doughnut-and-bagel renaissance this year, with the opening of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/26/east-bay-bagel-smackdown-beautys-vs-authentic-bagel-co/\">Beauty's Bagels and Authentic Bagel Company\u003c/a>, plus \u003ca href=\"http://baronbaking.com/\">Baron Baking\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/DoughnutDolly\">Doughnut Dolly\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/fall-2012/donut-logic.htm\">Doughnut Savant\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, the newly opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.sweetbarbakery.com/\">Sweet Bar Bakery\u003c/a> drew crowds for its I-can't-believe-they're-vegan \"faux-nuts,\" a baked doughnut-like pastry that owner Mani Niall invented while working in Hollywood. It was just one of many small food businesses that opened this year thanks to crowd-sourced fundraising campaigns. Later this year, look for a revival of \u003ca href=\"http:www.charleschocolates.com\">Charles Chocolates\u003c/a>, which used Kickstarter to raise both money and public awareness that the much-missed chocolatier was planning a comeback. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who's Playing? Who Cares? We're Here for the Lamb Poutine\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2012 was the year Outside Lands and other big-draw music and entertainment festivals around the Bay became \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/13/outside-lands-2012-photos-food-art-music-people/\">as much about the food\u003c/a> as the entertainment, as anyone who spent time at John Fink's mini-empire \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/12/outside-lambs-a-moroccan-oasis-within-outside-lands/\">Outside Lambs\u003c/a> can attest. Oakland's Eat Real Festival was better than ever and La Cocina's Street Food Festival was bigger, with a fun, if chilly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/night-market-sf-street-food-festival/\">Night Market\u003c/a> added on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You Like Us, You Really Like Us\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDanny Bowien was definitely a cool cat in the San Francisco chef scene, but it wasn't until he and his long locks showed up on the Lower East Side to open an outpost of Mission Chinese Food in New York that his celebrity-chefdom flamed hotter than one of his own plates of cumin-spiced lamb. And this year, after moving, then closing, her restaurant and bakery Citizen Cake, California native and longtime San Franciscan Elizabeth Falkner resurfaced in Brooklyn, opening \u003ca href=\"http://krescendobrooklyn.com/\">Krescendo\u003c/a>, a pizza place. Still, the Bay Area felt some more love than usual from the national media this year, as Travel and Leisure's Adam Sachs sang the praises of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/a-new-crop-of-san-francisco-restaurants\">a new crop of (mostly Mission-centric) San Francisco restaurants\u003c/a>, including Bar Tartine, Craftsman+Wolves, St Vincent, Outerlands, Park Tavern, Benu, Rich Table, and others, and Bon Appetit dubbed Pacific Heights' State Bird Provisions as its \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/2012/09/state-bird-hot-ten\">2012 Restaurant of the Year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smart Choices for Brain Food\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWith dispiriting reminders that seafood mislabeling and ocean depredation continues around the world, KQED and other local publications helped raise the profile of sustainable fishing and seafood consumption, with pieces like \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/11/09/nothing-fishy-about-sustainable-seafood/\">Nothing Fishy About Sustainable Seafood\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/31/the-whole-fish-snout-to-tail-movement-meet-gills-to-adipose-fin/\">The Whole Fish: Snout to Tail Movement Meets Gill to Adipose Fin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/summer-2012/whats-cooking-with-sustainable-seafood.htm\">What's Cooking with Sustainable Seafood?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Plastic bags, foie gras, soda taxes, backyard chickens, sustainable seafood: they all made it to the headlines this year. 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Photo collage by Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Food Trends 2012. Photo collage by Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53722\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo collage by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delicious, or disgusting? The top food stories and trends of this year offered plenty of both. While the rest of the country worried about pink slime and contaminated peanuts, and dealt with the fallout of a devastating drought and a stalled farm bill, San Francisco debated its upcoming bans of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/09/last-hurrah-for-foie-gras/\">foie gras\u003c/a> and plastic shopping bags. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the year that big money and the usually New York-centric food media finally started to notice that our local food scene is no longer just \u003ca href=\"http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2009/10/ten_things_anthony_bourdain_an.html\">figs on a plate\u003c/a> or (humanely-raised) \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2009/09/03/did-nate-appleman-diss-san-francisco/\">tripe in a bowl\u003c/a> if, really, it ever was, for those of us who live and eat here every day. A few of our local stars decamped for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Citizen-Cake-s-Elizabeth-Falkner-leaving-for-N-Y-3603021.php\">Big Apple\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/13/outside-lands-2012-photos-food-art-music-people/\">Big music festivals\u003c/a> found that concert-goers now come as much for the food and drink as for the headliners, while other \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/san-francisco-street-food-festival-2012-photo-slideshow/\">food-centric street festivals\u003c/a> proved that standing in line for Korean tacos, Himalayan dumplings, or Mexican huaraches could be the main event. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coconut water and kale chips went from trendy to kiddie, and doughnuts (and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/26/east-bay-bagel-smackdown-beautys-vs-authentic-bagel-co/\">bagels\u003c/a>) became the new cupcakes, at least in the East Bay, where everyone, it seemed, opened a bakery this year. So here, looking back on a year's worth of columns from NPR, Bay Area Bites, and the rest of the media from the Bay Area and beyond, some reflections on what went right (and wrong) in food in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't They Have Chinese Food in New York City?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhat do New Yorkers really, really want? To wait in line for hours and hours, drinking free keg beer, for the chance to numb their tastebuds and sear their gullets with the likes of kung pao pastrami and pork-laden mapo tofu at what even Pete \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html\">\"Guy Fieri, You're Dead to Me\u003c/a>\" Wells called the city's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/dining/reviews/12-restaurant-triumphs-of-2012.html\">most exciting new restaurant\u003c/a>. Sorry, Gotham, but your hot ticket is our Tuesday night take-out. \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionchinesefood.com\">Mission Chinese Food\u003c/a> got its start as a quirky pop-up sharing kitchen and table space with a Mission Street Cantonese joint, and we know that \u003ca href=\"http://www.gq.com/food-travel/restaurants-and-bars/201212/danny-bowien-interview-mission-chinese-profile\">GQ darling\u003c/a> chef Danny Bowien will always love us best. Even better than those black-vinegar peanuts? That in two years, the restaurant, which donates 75 cents for every entree, has raised almost $170,000 for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sffoodbank.org/\">SF Food Bank\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take Our Plastic Bags, Take Our Foie Gras, But Hands Off Our Sodas\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile New Yorkers kvelled about \u003ca href=\"http://gothamist.com/2012/09/14/hes_not_my_nanny_new_yorkers_react.php\">\"Nanny Bloomberg's\"\u003c/a> attempt to limit their Big Gulp consumption, San Francisco took October's ordinance against plastic shopping bags in stride. A 10 cent nuisance fee for paper bags encouraged city dwellers to make reusable bags as much a part of daily baggage as cellphones and keys. And where San Fran goes, Oakland will follow: On January 1, Alameda County joins the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/12/29/alameda-county-joins-plastic-bag-ban/\">plastic bag ban\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the gavage (force-feeding) method of fattening geese and ducks became illegal in California, wiping foie gras off menus, shutting down foie gras production statewide, and inspiring a disproportionally large amount of media coverage, like this soul-searching piece by L.A. Times writer Ed Lebowitz in \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-last-days-of-foie-gras/309009/\">The Atlantic\u003c/a>. Hot on the heels of Humphry Slocombe's last-chance \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/humphryslocombe/status/211912227194806272\">foie-gras ice cream sandwiches\u003c/a> was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/restaurants/article/Presidio-Social-Club-pulls-foie-gras-3724123.php\">well-publicized attempt\u003c/a> by the Presidio Social Club to circumvent the ban. (Their argument--that the restaurant, located in the Presidio, was on federal land and thus not subject to state regulations--didn't fly, and the restaurant took foie gras off its menu shortly thereafter.) Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Richmond-Soda-Tax-177591311.html\">Richmond residents defeated Measure N\u003c/a>, a proposed penny-per-ounce tax on sodas and other high-sugar drinks, after the American Beverage Association poured over $2.5 million into a \"No on N\" campaign. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backyard Chickens Jumped the Shark\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOK, not really. We like waking up to the clucking of our blond, bosomy Buff Orpingtons just as much as the next soft-hearted urban homesteader. But when Williams-Sonoma's new \u003ca href=\"http://www.williams-sonoma.com/shop/agrarian-garden/\">Agrarian\u003c/a> catalog category started offering a \u003ca href=\"http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/reclaimed-rustic-coop-with-artwork/\">Reclaimed Rustic Chicken Coop\u003c/a>, \"built by hand using reclaimed redwood and decorated with a hand-painted rooster\" for $759.95, we did wonder if there wasn't some truth to this Deadspin writer's \u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/5959212\">hilariously bitter rant\u003c/a> about the San Francisco-based retailer. And just as you shouldn't plant veggies in untested urban soil, so you might want to consider where your cute, free-range city birds are scratching. A recent New York City study found \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/dining/worries-about-lead-for-new-yorks-garden-fresh-eggs.html\">high lead levels\u003c/a> in eggs from community-garden chickens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money Found Our Local Favorites\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nStarbucks spent $100 million to buy Bay Area-based bakery-cafe chain \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Bay-Area-s-La-Boulange-bakery-sold-to-Starbucks-3608539.php\">La Boulange\u003c/a>, while venture capitalists True Ventures and Index Ventures poured \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/business/2012/10/blue-bottle-cashes-in/\">$20 million in funding\u003c/a> into Oakland's Blue Bottle Coffee. A German conglomerate, Joh. A. Benckiser, bought Peet's for nearly $1 billion. South Park's\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/american-grilled-cheese-kitchen_n_1819013.html\"> American Grilled Cheese Kitchen\u003c/a> won a $250K grant from Chase as a winner of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/\">Mission: Small Business\u003c/a> competition. And tech money did more than just fuel impossible rents, $18 pizzas, and another round of \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/09/14/the-rise-of-the-13-cocktail/\">$13 Corpse Revivers\u003c/a>: business partners Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring poured their big software-company payoff into \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/02/10/dandelion-chocolate-raises-the-bar/\">Dandelion Chocolate\u003c/a>, a small-batch bean-to-bar operation. After starting the business in Dogpatch, they turned a former auto-repair place on Valencia Street into a full-service chocolate factory and shop just in time for holiday shopping, offering cool stuff like this \u003ca href=\"http://www.dandelionchocolate.com/2012/11/20/pirates-poems-sea-salt-chocolate/\">chapbook and chocolate combination\u003c/a>, produced with neighboring writing center \u003ca href=\"http://826valencia.org/\">826 Valencia\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And Small-Money Operations Got the Nod from Jerry Brown\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn September, Gov. Brown approved \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1616\">AB 1616\u003c/a>, the \"cottage food law\" that allows for home production and less stringent health-department regulation for typically non-hazardous foods such as bread, pastries, dry pasta, granola, jam, honey, candy, coffee beans, spice blends and more. \"Cottage food\" industries for such items now don't require a commercial kitchen, as long as the businesses don't do more than $35K/year in gross sales this year. You still can't make hot or ready-to-eat foods or highly perishable items without full regulation and a commercial kitchen, which meant that Forage SF's very popular but renegade \u003ca href=\"http://foragesf.com/market/\">Underground Market\u003c/a> ended its 3-year run with a final food blitz on December 22.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nPut a Hole in It\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe East Bay, in particular, had a doughnut-and-bagel renaissance this year, with the opening of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/26/east-bay-bagel-smackdown-beautys-vs-authentic-bagel-co/\">Beauty's Bagels and Authentic Bagel Company\u003c/a>, plus \u003ca href=\"http://baronbaking.com/\">Baron Baking\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/DoughnutDolly\">Doughnut Dolly\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/fall-2012/donut-logic.htm\">Doughnut Savant\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, the newly opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.sweetbarbakery.com/\">Sweet Bar Bakery\u003c/a> drew crowds for its I-can't-believe-they're-vegan \"faux-nuts,\" a baked doughnut-like pastry that owner Mani Niall invented while working in Hollywood. It was just one of many small food businesses that opened this year thanks to crowd-sourced fundraising campaigns. Later this year, look for a revival of \u003ca href=\"http:www.charleschocolates.com\">Charles Chocolates\u003c/a>, which used Kickstarter to raise both money and public awareness that the much-missed chocolatier was planning a comeback. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who's Playing? Who Cares? We're Here for the Lamb Poutine\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2012 was the year Outside Lands and other big-draw music and entertainment festivals around the Bay became \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/13/outside-lands-2012-photos-food-art-music-people/\">as much about the food\u003c/a> as the entertainment, as anyone who spent time at John Fink's mini-empire \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/12/outside-lambs-a-moroccan-oasis-within-outside-lands/\">Outside Lambs\u003c/a> can attest. Oakland's Eat Real Festival was better than ever and La Cocina's Street Food Festival was bigger, with a fun, if chilly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/night-market-sf-street-food-festival/\">Night Market\u003c/a> added on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You Like Us, You Really Like Us\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDanny Bowien was definitely a cool cat in the San Francisco chef scene, but it wasn't until he and his long locks showed up on the Lower East Side to open an outpost of Mission Chinese Food in New York that his celebrity-chefdom flamed hotter than one of his own plates of cumin-spiced lamb. And this year, after moving, then closing, her restaurant and bakery Citizen Cake, California native and longtime San Franciscan Elizabeth Falkner resurfaced in Brooklyn, opening \u003ca href=\"http://krescendobrooklyn.com/\">Krescendo\u003c/a>, a pizza place. Still, the Bay Area felt some more love than usual from the national media this year, as Travel and Leisure's Adam Sachs sang the praises of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/a-new-crop-of-san-francisco-restaurants\">a new crop of (mostly Mission-centric) San Francisco restaurants\u003c/a>, including Bar Tartine, Craftsman+Wolves, St Vincent, Outerlands, Park Tavern, Benu, Rich Table, and others, and Bon Appetit dubbed Pacific Heights' State Bird Provisions as its \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/2012/09/state-bird-hot-ten\">2012 Restaurant of the Year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smart Choices for Brain Food\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWith dispiriting reminders that seafood mislabeling and ocean depredation continues around the world, KQED and other local publications helped raise the profile of sustainable fishing and seafood consumption, with pieces like \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/11/09/nothing-fishy-about-sustainable-seafood/\">Nothing Fishy About Sustainable Seafood\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/31/the-whole-fish-snout-to-tail-movement-meet-gills-to-adipose-fin/\">The Whole Fish: Snout to Tail Movement Meets Gill to Adipose Fin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/summer-2012/whats-cooking-with-sustainable-seafood.htm\">What's Cooking with Sustainable Seafood?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/53564/top-food-stories-and-trends-of-2012","authors":["5038"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_45","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_90","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_8812","bayareabites_10080","bayareabites_10984","bayareabites_1786","bayareabites_295","bayareabites_9546","bayareabites_1686","bayareabites_2625","bayareabites_323","bayareabites_10313","bayareabites_14749"],"featImg":"bayareabites_53723","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_43005":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_43005","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"43005","score":null,"sort":[1336564811000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"last-hurrah-for-foie-gras","title":"Last Hurrah for Foie Gras","publishDate":1336564811,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/foie-gras560a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43130\" title=\"Foie Gras salad\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/foie-gras560a.jpg\" alt=\"Foie Gras salad\" width=\"560\" height=\"352\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Asparagus and artichoke salad, with mizuna, toasted oats and foie gras.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless something surprising happens, Californians will no longer see foie gras on restaurant menus starting July 1.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>A 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040SB1520\">state bill\u003c/a> enacted the ban, championed by then state Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, who told \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/03/kqeds-forum-foie-gras-to-ban-or-not-to-ban/\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> he doesn't profess to be an expert on foie gras. He just wants to stop the force feeding of birds. \"I don't know why chefs can't make something that tastes like foie gras that doesn't mean they have to torture birds to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation gave California’s sole producer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanfoiegras.com/\">Sonoma Foie Gras\u003c/a>, seven and a half years lead time to develop an alternative method of production considered humane. Founder/owner Guillermo Gonzalez tells KQED “Our last flock of ducks will be out of the farm by mid-June.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In large part because of the lead time, many of California’s high end chefs say they were caught off guard. In an 11\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> hour protest, more than 100 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/29/MN5A1OA7U6.DTL\">signed a petition\u003c/a> on behalf of the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (aka CHEFS) and sent it to Sacramento. It’s unclear how effective they can be politically, even though many have spent the last half year throwing foie gras themed dinners/fundraisers for the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/russell-jackson200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43116\" title=\"Russell Jackson\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/russell-jackson200.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Jackson\" width=\"200\" height=\"245\">\u003c/a>Like Food Gal \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodgal.com/2012/03/fighting-for-foie-gras/\">Carolyn Jung\u003c/a>, I attended the last “FU Fois Gras rEvolution” held by Russell Jackson, the chef/owner of the now closed Lafitte Restaurant. He still sells t-shirts that say \"I've got your foie gras right here, \u003ca href=\"http://lafittesf.com/swag.html\">m!@#$%f^&*er\u003c/a>.\" (Did I mention this is a heated debate?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What really gets in Jackson’s craw about SB 1520 is language he feels opens the door for California regulators to shut down most, if not all, poultry production in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How big was your turkey at Thanksgiving this year?” he asks. “Read the law. It's there, in black and white.” He actually read part of the law to diners at Lafitte before they tucked into a six course meal starring foie gras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Section of SB 1520\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>25980.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(a) A bird includes, but is not limited to, a duck or goose.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(b) Force feeding a bird means a process that causes the bird to consume more food than a typical bird of the same species would consume voluntarily. Force feeding methods include, but are not limited to, delivering feed through a tube or other device inserted into the bird’s esophagus.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I put Jackson’s charge to Bryan Pease, Co-founder and Board Chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.APRL.org\">Animal Protection and Rescue League\u003c/a> in San Diego. He replied “The law focuses narrowly on the cruel practice of force feeding ducks or geese to enlarge their livers beyond normal size. It would not affect any practices related to chickens, turkeys, or ordinary duck or geese farming, in which the birds can eat as much as they want but are not FORCED to eat (in this case with a long metal pipe) more than they would voluntarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How you “read” the videos that depict the process of gavage (force feeding) depends on which videos you watch. If you take \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeWlY0KFv8\">Anthony Bourdain\u003c/a>'s word for it, “a few angry, twisted people” are misreading a process less objectionable than what you see people do to each other for a “pay per view film on the hotel channel.” If you take \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojvu7qHWqoM\">Kate Winslett\u003c/a>'s word for it, ducks and geese suffer a “terrifying and painful process” before being killed “for their diseased and bloated livers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/lafitte560.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43114\" title=\"Diners at FU Fois Gras rEvolution\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/lafitte560.jpg\" alt=\"Diners at FU Fois Gras rEvolution\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Butcher paper blocks the diners' view of United for Animals protestors, but not their signs.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/25/jacques-pepin-talks-picky-eating-foie-gras-and-paula-deen/\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a> told Bay Area Bites he feels the activists \"have no idea what they are talking about. And the worst is that they are righteous.\" Wolfgang Puck was one of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2012/03/01/wolfgang_puck_sends_letter_to_resta.php\">famously righteous\u003c/a> chefs on the anti-foie gras side, until he was discovered \u003ca href=\"http://foodarts.com/news/features/16359/foie-and-its-discontents\">serving it at private events\u003c/a>, upon request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some predict a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/13/forbidden-foie-gras/\">black market will develop\u003c/a>, with the illicit goods smuggled in from places like New York, France and China. As Adrienne Hill reported for \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13872710\">NPR\u003c/a>, Chicago chefs and diners found a way around a foie gras ban there. That said, it's much easier to circumvent a city-wide ban than a statewide ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I reported for The California Report and NPR, animal rights activists estimate some 300 restaurants around California still serve foie gras. The protestors are mobilized to meet the chefs and diners wherever they meet to eat it. Dana Portnoy told me outside Lafitte that groups like United for Animals and the Animal Protection and Rescue League have such a strong sense of urgency “because the ducks are being tortured on a daily basis until the ban takes effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the California Report story that aired May 9.\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205090850b.xml\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205090850b.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/PETA-560.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43115\" title=\"Julie Gillen of United for Animals\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/PETA-560.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Gillen of United for Animals\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Julie Gillen of United for Animals ran around to a back window as Lafitte diners ate six courses of foie gras, from appetizers to dessert.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a handy (but hardly comprehensive) list for foie gras fans and protesters alike. As you can see, the heavy concentrations are in LA, SF and Wine Country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.alexanderssteakhouse.com/sf_site/san_francisco_information.html\">Alexander’s Steakhouse\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://amerestaurant.com/\">Ame\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://animalrestaurant.com/\">Animal\u003c/a> (LA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://brassicanapavalley.com/\">Brassica\u003c/a> (St. Helena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bouchonbistro.com/\">Bouchon Bistro\u003c/a> (Yountville & Beverly Hills)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/\">Boulevard\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.charliepalmer.com/Properties/DryCreekKitchen\">Charlie Palmer’s Dry Kitchen\u003c/a> (Healdsburg)\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cheztj.com/\">Chez TJ\u003c/a> (Mountain View)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cyrusrestaurant.com/\">Cyrus\u003c/a> (Healdsburg)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeveleigh.com/\">Eveleigh\u003c/a> (West Hollywood)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.havengastropub.com/\">Haven Gastropub+Brewery\u003c/a> (Pasadena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://mvink.com/food/\">INK\u003c/a> (Los Angeles)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://incanto.biz/\">Incanto\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jirafferestaurant.com/\">Jiraffe\u003c/a> (Santa Monica)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kj.com/\">Kendall Jackson\u003c/a> (Healdsburg)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lafolie.com/\">La Folie\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.laseinebg.com/\">La Seine\u003c/a> (Beverly Hills)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bardessono.com/restaurant_bar/\">Lucy at Bardessono\u003c/a> (Yountville)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ludolefebvre.com/ludobites\">LudoBites\u003c/a> (LA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.martinswestgp.com/\">Martins West\u003c/a> (Redwood City)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://melisse.com/\">Mélisse\u003c/a> (Santa Monica)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelsonnaples.com/\">Michaels on Naples\u003c/a> (Long Beach)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://morimotonapa.com/\">Morimoto Napa\u003c/a> (Napa)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.onemarket.com/\">One Market\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.patinagroup.com/\">Patina Group\u003c/a> (statewide)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.plumedhorse.com/\">Plumed Horse\u003c/a> (Saratoga)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.providencela.com/\">Providence\u003c/a> (Los Angeles)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thompsonhotels.com/hotels/la/hollywood-roosevelt/eat/public-kitchen-and-bar\">Public Bar and Kitchen\u003c/a> (LA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thescdsf.com/SubCulture_Dining/Avenger_Series.html\">SubCulture Dining\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.terrarestaurant.com/\">Terra\u003c/a> (St. Helena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.frenchlaundry.com/\">The French Laundry\u003c/a> (Yountville)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.therestaurantatmeadowood.com/\">The Restaurant at Meadowood\u003c/a> (St. Helena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.roycela.com/\">The Royce at The Langham\u003c/a> (Pasadena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.txokosf.com/\">Txoko\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.waterlooandcity.com/\">Waterloo & City\u003c/a> (Culver City)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Unless something surprising happens, Californians will no longer see foie gras on restaurant menus starting July 1. A 2004 state bill enacted the ban, championed by then state Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, who told KQED's Forum he doesn't profess to be an expert on foie gras. He just wants to stop the force feeding of birds. \"I don't know why chefs can't make something that tastes like foie gras that doesn't mean they have to torture birds to do it.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1336876137,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1039},"headData":{"title":"Last Hurrah for Foie Gras | KQED","description":"Unless something surprising happens, Californians will no longer see foie gras on restaurant menus starting July 1. A 2004 state bill enacted the ban, championed by then state Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, who told KQED's Forum he doesn't profess to be an expert on foie gras. He just wants to stop the force feeding of birds. "I don't know why chefs can't make something that tastes like foie gras that doesn't mean they have to torture birds to do it."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Last Hurrah for Foie Gras","datePublished":"2012-05-09T12:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2012-05-13T02:28:57.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"43005 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=43005","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/09/last-hurrah-for-foie-gras/","disqusTitle":"Last Hurrah for Foie Gras","path":"/bayareabites/43005/last-hurrah-for-foie-gras","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/foie-gras560a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43130\" title=\"Foie Gras salad\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/foie-gras560a.jpg\" alt=\"Foie Gras salad\" width=\"560\" height=\"352\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Asparagus and artichoke salad, with mizuna, toasted oats and foie gras.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless something surprising happens, Californians will no longer see foie gras on restaurant menus starting July 1.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>A 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040SB1520\">state bill\u003c/a> enacted the ban, championed by then state Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, who told \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/03/kqeds-forum-foie-gras-to-ban-or-not-to-ban/\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> he doesn't profess to be an expert on foie gras. He just wants to stop the force feeding of birds. \"I don't know why chefs can't make something that tastes like foie gras that doesn't mean they have to torture birds to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation gave California’s sole producer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanfoiegras.com/\">Sonoma Foie Gras\u003c/a>, seven and a half years lead time to develop an alternative method of production considered humane. Founder/owner Guillermo Gonzalez tells KQED “Our last flock of ducks will be out of the farm by mid-June.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In large part because of the lead time, many of California’s high end chefs say they were caught off guard. In an 11\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> hour protest, more than 100 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/29/MN5A1OA7U6.DTL\">signed a petition\u003c/a> on behalf of the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (aka CHEFS) and sent it to Sacramento. It’s unclear how effective they can be politically, even though many have spent the last half year throwing foie gras themed dinners/fundraisers for the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/russell-jackson200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43116\" title=\"Russell Jackson\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/russell-jackson200.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Jackson\" width=\"200\" height=\"245\">\u003c/a>Like Food Gal \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodgal.com/2012/03/fighting-for-foie-gras/\">Carolyn Jung\u003c/a>, I attended the last “FU Fois Gras rEvolution” held by Russell Jackson, the chef/owner of the now closed Lafitte Restaurant. He still sells t-shirts that say \"I've got your foie gras right here, \u003ca href=\"http://lafittesf.com/swag.html\">m!@#$%f^&*er\u003c/a>.\" (Did I mention this is a heated debate?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What really gets in Jackson’s craw about SB 1520 is language he feels opens the door for California regulators to shut down most, if not all, poultry production in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How big was your turkey at Thanksgiving this year?” he asks. “Read the law. It's there, in black and white.” He actually read part of the law to diners at Lafitte before they tucked into a six course meal starring foie gras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Section of SB 1520\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>25980.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(a) A bird includes, but is not limited to, a duck or goose.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(b) Force feeding a bird means a process that causes the bird to consume more food than a typical bird of the same species would consume voluntarily. Force feeding methods include, but are not limited to, delivering feed through a tube or other device inserted into the bird’s esophagus.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I put Jackson’s charge to Bryan Pease, Co-founder and Board Chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.APRL.org\">Animal Protection and Rescue League\u003c/a> in San Diego. He replied “The law focuses narrowly on the cruel practice of force feeding ducks or geese to enlarge their livers beyond normal size. It would not affect any practices related to chickens, turkeys, or ordinary duck or geese farming, in which the birds can eat as much as they want but are not FORCED to eat (in this case with a long metal pipe) more than they would voluntarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How you “read” the videos that depict the process of gavage (force feeding) depends on which videos you watch. If you take \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeWlY0KFv8\">Anthony Bourdain\u003c/a>'s word for it, “a few angry, twisted people” are misreading a process less objectionable than what you see people do to each other for a “pay per view film on the hotel channel.” If you take \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojvu7qHWqoM\">Kate Winslett\u003c/a>'s word for it, ducks and geese suffer a “terrifying and painful process” before being killed “for their diseased and bloated livers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/lafitte560.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43114\" title=\"Diners at FU Fois Gras rEvolution\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/lafitte560.jpg\" alt=\"Diners at FU Fois Gras rEvolution\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Butcher paper blocks the diners' view of United for Animals protestors, but not their signs.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/25/jacques-pepin-talks-picky-eating-foie-gras-and-paula-deen/\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a> told Bay Area Bites he feels the activists \"have no idea what they are talking about. And the worst is that they are righteous.\" Wolfgang Puck was one of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2012/03/01/wolfgang_puck_sends_letter_to_resta.php\">famously righteous\u003c/a> chefs on the anti-foie gras side, until he was discovered \u003ca href=\"http://foodarts.com/news/features/16359/foie-and-its-discontents\">serving it at private events\u003c/a>, upon request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some predict a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/13/forbidden-foie-gras/\">black market will develop\u003c/a>, with the illicit goods smuggled in from places like New York, France and China. As Adrienne Hill reported for \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13872710\">NPR\u003c/a>, Chicago chefs and diners found a way around a foie gras ban there. That said, it's much easier to circumvent a city-wide ban than a statewide ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I reported for The California Report and NPR, animal rights activists estimate some 300 restaurants around California still serve foie gras. The protestors are mobilized to meet the chefs and diners wherever they meet to eat it. Dana Portnoy told me outside Lafitte that groups like United for Animals and the Animal Protection and Rescue League have such a strong sense of urgency “because the ducks are being tortured on a daily basis until the ban takes effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the California Report story that aired May 9.\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205090850b.xml\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205090850b.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/PETA-560.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43115\" title=\"Julie Gillen of United for Animals\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/PETA-560.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Gillen of United for Animals\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Julie Gillen of United for Animals ran around to a back window as Lafitte diners ate six courses of foie gras, from appetizers to dessert.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a handy (but hardly comprehensive) list for foie gras fans and protesters alike. As you can see, the heavy concentrations are in LA, SF and Wine Country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.alexanderssteakhouse.com/sf_site/san_francisco_information.html\">Alexander’s Steakhouse\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://amerestaurant.com/\">Ame\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://animalrestaurant.com/\">Animal\u003c/a> (LA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://brassicanapavalley.com/\">Brassica\u003c/a> (St. Helena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bouchonbistro.com/\">Bouchon Bistro\u003c/a> (Yountville & Beverly Hills)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/\">Boulevard\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.charliepalmer.com/Properties/DryCreekKitchen\">Charlie Palmer’s Dry Kitchen\u003c/a> (Healdsburg)\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cheztj.com/\">Chez TJ\u003c/a> (Mountain View)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cyrusrestaurant.com/\">Cyrus\u003c/a> (Healdsburg)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeveleigh.com/\">Eveleigh\u003c/a> (West Hollywood)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.havengastropub.com/\">Haven Gastropub+Brewery\u003c/a> (Pasadena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://mvink.com/food/\">INK\u003c/a> (Los Angeles)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://incanto.biz/\">Incanto\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jirafferestaurant.com/\">Jiraffe\u003c/a> (Santa Monica)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kj.com/\">Kendall Jackson\u003c/a> (Healdsburg)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lafolie.com/\">La Folie\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.laseinebg.com/\">La Seine\u003c/a> (Beverly Hills)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bardessono.com/restaurant_bar/\">Lucy at Bardessono\u003c/a> (Yountville)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ludolefebvre.com/ludobites\">LudoBites\u003c/a> (LA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.martinswestgp.com/\">Martins West\u003c/a> (Redwood City)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://melisse.com/\">Mélisse\u003c/a> (Santa Monica)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelsonnaples.com/\">Michaels on Naples\u003c/a> (Long Beach)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://morimotonapa.com/\">Morimoto Napa\u003c/a> (Napa)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.onemarket.com/\">One Market\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.patinagroup.com/\">Patina Group\u003c/a> (statewide)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.plumedhorse.com/\">Plumed Horse\u003c/a> (Saratoga)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.providencela.com/\">Providence\u003c/a> (Los Angeles)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thompsonhotels.com/hotels/la/hollywood-roosevelt/eat/public-kitchen-and-bar\">Public Bar and Kitchen\u003c/a> (LA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thescdsf.com/SubCulture_Dining/Avenger_Series.html\">SubCulture Dining\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.terrarestaurant.com/\">Terra\u003c/a> (St. Helena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.frenchlaundry.com/\">The French Laundry\u003c/a> (Yountville)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.therestaurantatmeadowood.com/\">The Restaurant at Meadowood\u003c/a> (St. Helena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.roycela.com/\">The Royce at The Langham\u003c/a> (Pasadena)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.txokosf.com/\">Txoko\u003c/a> (SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.waterlooandcity.com/\">Waterloo & City\u003c/a> (Culver City)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/43005/last-hurrah-for-foie-gras","authors":["251"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_1873"],"tags":["bayareabites_10420","bayareabites_1786","bayareabites_10323","bayareabites_8665","bayareabites_8664"],"featImg":"bayareabites_43114","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_42744":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_42744","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"42744","score":null,"sort":[1336057235000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kqeds-forum-foie-gras-to-ban-or-not-to-ban","title":"KQED's Forum: Foie Gras: To Ban or Not to Ban","publishDate":1336057235,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/FoieGrasWorker20120501.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/FoieGrasWorker20120501.jpg\" alt=\"A worker weighs a fresh duck liver. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images\" title=\"A worker weighs a fresh duck liver. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42747\">\u003c/a>Foie gras is at the center of debate in the California culinary world. More than 100 chefs are working to repeal a new law that would ban the force-feeding of ducks and sale of foie gras in the state starting on July 1. The chefs say foie gras can be produced humanely. But animal welfare advocates say the production of foie gras is cruel, and that any way you slice it the animals will suffer.\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201205020900\">Original Broadcast:\u003c/a> Wed, May 2, 2012 -- 9:00 AM\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205020900.xml\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205020900.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Host: Michael Krasny\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Guests:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>John Burton, California Democratic Party chair and former California Senate president pro tem\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mourad Lahlou, owner and chef of \u003ca href=\"http://www.aziza-sf.com/\">Aziza\u003c/a> Restaurant and part of the coalition of chefs fighting the foie gras ban\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/\">Humane Society of the United States\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rob Black, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://ggra.org/\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>, which is spearheading the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (\u003ca href=\"http://chefstandards.com/\">CHEFS\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Foie gras is at the center of debate in the California culinary world. 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Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images\" title=\"A worker weighs a fresh duck liver. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42747\">\u003c/a>Foie gras is at the center of debate in the California culinary world. More than 100 chefs are working to repeal a new law that would ban the force-feeding of ducks and sale of foie gras in the state starting on July 1. The chefs say foie gras can be produced humanely. But animal welfare advocates say the production of foie gras is cruel, and that any way you slice it the animals will suffer.\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201205020900\">Original Broadcast:\u003c/a> Wed, May 2, 2012 -- 9:00 AM\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205020900.xml\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205020900.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Host: Michael Krasny\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Guests:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>John Burton, California Democratic Party chair and former California Senate president pro tem\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mourad Lahlou, owner and chef of \u003ca href=\"http://www.aziza-sf.com/\">Aziza\u003c/a> Restaurant and part of the coalition of chefs fighting the foie gras ban\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/\">Humane Society of the United States\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rob Black, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://ggra.org/\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>, which is spearheading the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (\u003ca href=\"http://chefstandards.com/\">CHEFS\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/42744/kqeds-forum-foie-gras-to-ban-or-not-to-ban","authors":["5014"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_45","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34","bayareabites_1807"],"tags":["bayareabites_250","bayareabites_1786","bayareabites_10323","bayareabites_1325"],"featImg":"bayareabites_42747","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_42187":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_42187","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"42187","score":null,"sort":[1335360008000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jacques-pepin-talks-picky-eating-foie-gras-and-paula-deen","title":"Jacques Pépin Talks Picky Eating, Foie Gras, and Paula Deen","publishDate":1335360008,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-serious.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-serious.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pepin in the KQED Greenroom. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pepin in the KQED Greenroom. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42313\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pépin in the KQED Greenroom.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhotos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is nothing new to say that Jacques Pépin has been a personal inspiration for me. I wish I could be more original, but there it is. Watching him with Julia Child in their WGBH show \u003ca href=\"http://www.hulu.com/julia-and-jacques-cooking-at-home\">\u003cem>Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2000 was one of my earlier impetuses to start cooking and trying more foods to roust me from the picky rut I'd been in for 27 years. Seven years later while working with him on his KQED show \u003ca href=\"http://www.grubreport.com/soupdujour/fastfood.html\">\u003cem>More Fast Food My Way\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Jacques said something to me around which I built an entire chapter of my first book. Today, I was able to hand Jacques a galley copy of that book and sit down with him for an hour to talk about picky eating, foie gras, and Paula Deen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really wish I could write out Jacques' voluptuous accent phonetically without it looking like I'm making fun of him. His cadence is just so enchanting, it makes you want to sit back with a glass of slow-sipping Calvados, close your eyes, and simply listen to all his stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, with no Calvados on hand and an interview to conduct, I jump right into our interview by asking Jacques to elaborate on something he wrote in the foreword of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/essentialpepin/book-dvds/\">\u003cem>Essential Pépin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: \"The appetites of a young, middle-aged, and an older man are different...\" Leaning back in the couch in KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2006/10/25/its-not-easy-being-green/\">greenroom\u003c/a>, Jacques notes that as you get older your metabolism changes, but also that, \"as a young chef, you tend to add to the plate. To add, to add, to add! And as you get older, you start to clean up, clean up, clean up the plate! Until you are left with the essential thing: \u003cem>that\u003c/em> tomato right there, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> olive oil, at \u003cem>that\u003c/em> temperature.\" I wonder aloud if this a function of being a young chef, of trying to impress people. \"It's a function of life,\" Jacques tells me and likens it to being a painter. \"An artist is going to clean, a kind of a purification. You go through a process to get more to the essential of whatever you are working on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One could hypothesize that so-called picky children are like this. They start with the essentials, the simple foods, and later they will add more and more to that repertoire. When they are taking in so much information at once as they develop and grow, it makes sense that they would stick with foods that are comforting and familiar to them. Things they can count on. Some people, like me, might go into adulthood as a picky eater and, as I researched and detailed in my book, the reasons for why or how that happens are many. But concentrating on the picky children who seem to plague parents so much more today than they did back when my parents were raising me, I ask Jacques whether his daughter Claudine ever went through a picky stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure, absolutely!\" Jacques responds instantly. \"Claudine loved string bean stew and all of a sudden, she hated string beans. And I said, 'Fine, you don't have to eat it.' And certainly, she loved snails, because she was three years old and she loved garlic and the butter and all that too, until she was six or seven and then she's at school and her friends said, 'YUCK! You're eating that?' And that's it -- no more of them!\" Jacques laughs and acknowledges that when kids reach a certain age, they want to conform to the other children around them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like my parents, Jacques' approach to Claudine going off string beans and escargot was to shrug it off. It didn't bother him, and he didn't get upset about it. Additionally, when it turned out that Claudine favored more unusual vegetables -- artichokes and Brussels sprouts -- Jacques didn't make a big deal about that, either. \"It's not like I went on my knees and said, 'Oh, my god!' No, we didn't even mention it. It doesn't even exist. It's there, you eat it. It comes, it goes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mention my feeling that today's parents are way more worried about picky eaters than in the past and, along with this, they expect their children to have accomplished palates at such a young age. Jacques' response is that America is a country of extremes. We go from 15-hour dishes to 15-second microwave dinners, and that there was a time where food wasn't really discussed at the table. It was there and you ate it. However, now we have the opposite situation where we're discussing and analyzing everything and expecting our kids to do the same. \"The kid is not meant to do that. No, the kid is just meant to enjoy the food, eat it, and that's it,\" Jacques pronounces. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Claudine was a child, Jacques use to take her to New York. Just the two of them. They would stay in a hotel and go to a movie, and after the movie, they would eat at restaurants like Brasserie or Lutèce. However, Claudine was used to all those fancy restaurants by the time she was six or seven, and on one visit, Jacques -- imitating Claudine's long-suffering tones -- says she asked, \"Can we go to Burger King?\" Jacques laughs and says his response was, \"Okay, fine!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There you go, just like Julia Child proudly admitted her affinity for McDonald's fries, Jacques Pépin, the celebrated chef who cooked for the likes of Charles de Gaulle and who chefs today admire and revere, had no problem taking his daughter to Burger King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The food follows your mood, follows the season, follows the ingredient. And don't talk too much, analyze it too much, just enjoy it.\" Laughing as he cites people's reaction to freaking out over putting butter on bread, Jacques explains, \"I say, 'Look, if you don't want to eat butter, don't eat it. Because if you eat it, you aren't going to digest it the right way. Your gastric juices are going to come back and you're going to have sourness. Don't eat it if it disturbs you. You have to be happy. You have to be happy when you cook and certainly you have to be happy when you eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As our conversation naturally turned from eating with kids to cooking with kids, Jacques told me that last week his eight-year-old granddaughter Shorey said to Claudine, \"Mom, I think want to cook with Jacques.\" Claudine's response was, \"Well, that's fine, darling, but I don't think you should call your grandfather Jacques.\" Shorey started crying and said, \"I didn't mean him, I want to cook with Jacques Torres!\" As Jacques pronounces this famous chocolatier's name, his voice chokes with appreciative mirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-laughing.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-laughing.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pépin in the KQED Green Room. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pépin in the KQED Green Room. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42315\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn't intend to get into food politics, but after Jacques tells me his publishers thought skinning a rabbit on the DVD accompaniment to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/essentialpepin/\">\u003cem>Essential Pepin\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was too traumatizing (adding that if he killed and skinned a rabbit on stage, \"I would probably be assassinated more than if I killed my wife!\"), Jacques himself brings up the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/13/forbidden-foie-gras/\">California foie gras ban\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have no idea what they are talking about. And the worst is that they are righteous,\" Jacques announces. Stating that no one would pass a law banning the large industrial chicken farms that abuse their poultry with beak trimming and other atrocities, Jacques details that the way foie gras-destined ducks are treated is actually a \"natural process\" that both the Ancient Egyptians and Romans practiced long before the French came along. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Way back then it was discovered that when a duck or goose was killed at migration time, the liver was twice as large as normal. Additionally, it was noted that after migration, the liver shrank down again. Jacques explains this is the liver's reaction to the overeating that is necessary for sustained migration. The Egyptians and Romans learned they could overfeed the ducks outside of migration and achieve this same affect. \"But if you've been on a farm,\" Jacques explains, \"the first day the duck is a little surprised when they put the [gavage] in and give him the mush...but after one day, they come to get it.\" Jacques continues that the animal does not suffer, and that, in fact, there can't be any trauma whatsoever, because if the animal is traumatized, it actually compromises the quality of the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That discussion emboldens me to get his opinion on another hot button food topic: Paula Deen. Reminding him that Anthony Bourdain once called Paula Deen \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-19/news/ct-bourdain-vs-deen_1_paula-deen-anthony-bourdain-dangerous-person\">\"the worst, most dangerous person to America,\"\u003c/a> I ask Jacques whether Deen's recent diabetes diagnosis was really any of the public's business. \"No, it's not right. That's the way she cooks -- just like many other people in the South, like me occasionally -- and this is a condition people get. Who knows, if she lived in Provence and cooked the Mediterranean way that she wouldn't have the same condition anyway? We are cooks, we aren't doctors.\" As to whether or not Deen and others have any responsibility to their viewers, Jacques explained, \"I have 700 recipes and of those, some are classic French recipes and are plenty rich. I have no choice what people are going to cook. I have no choice in how much people are going to drink.\" Jacques chuckles that people freak out when he tells him he and his wife Gloria drink two bottles over dinner. \"Well yes,\" he details, \"I start cooking at 4:00 in the afternoon and I open a bottle of white wine and by the time we eat at 7:00, we've finished that bottle of white wine and we open a bottle of red wine.\" Jacques concludes this by saying he's recently decided to exclusively buy magnums of wine. \"So when my doctor asks, I will say, 'Oh, I only drink one bottle.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A contributor to Bay Area Bites since its inception, Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a Bay Area food writer and editor. Her first book \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Suffering-Succotash-Picky-Eaters-Understand/dp/0399537503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335055355&sr=8-1\">Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate\u003c/a> is a humorous non-fiction narrative and exposé on the lives of picky eaters. It releases from Perigee Books July 3rd.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"I really wish I could write out Jacques' voluptuous accent phonetically without it looking like I'm making fun of him. His cadence is just so enchanting, it makes you want to sit back with a glass of slow-sipping Calvados, close your eyes, and simply listen to all his stories.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1335459334,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1780},"headData":{"title":"Jacques Pépin Talks Picky Eating, Foie Gras, and Paula Deen | KQED","description":"I really wish I could write out Jacques' voluptuous accent phonetically without it looking like I'm making fun of him. His cadence is just so enchanting, it makes you want to sit back with a glass of slow-sipping Calvados, close your eyes, and simply listen to all his stories.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Jacques Pépin Talks Picky Eating, Foie Gras, and Paula Deen","datePublished":"2012-04-25T13:20:08.000Z","dateModified":"2012-04-26T16:55:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"42187 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=42187","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/25/jacques-pepin-talks-picky-eating-foie-gras-and-paula-deen/","disqusTitle":"Jacques Pépin Talks Picky Eating, Foie Gras, and Paula Deen","path":"/bayareabites/42187/jacques-pepin-talks-picky-eating-foie-gras-and-paula-deen","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-serious.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-serious.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pepin in the KQED Greenroom. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pepin in the KQED Greenroom. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42313\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pépin in the KQED Greenroom.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhotos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is nothing new to say that Jacques Pépin has been a personal inspiration for me. I wish I could be more original, but there it is. Watching him with Julia Child in their WGBH show \u003ca href=\"http://www.hulu.com/julia-and-jacques-cooking-at-home\">\u003cem>Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2000 was one of my earlier impetuses to start cooking and trying more foods to roust me from the picky rut I'd been in for 27 years. Seven years later while working with him on his KQED show \u003ca href=\"http://www.grubreport.com/soupdujour/fastfood.html\">\u003cem>More Fast Food My Way\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Jacques said something to me around which I built an entire chapter of my first book. Today, I was able to hand Jacques a galley copy of that book and sit down with him for an hour to talk about picky eating, foie gras, and Paula Deen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really wish I could write out Jacques' voluptuous accent phonetically without it looking like I'm making fun of him. His cadence is just so enchanting, it makes you want to sit back with a glass of slow-sipping Calvados, close your eyes, and simply listen to all his stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, with no Calvados on hand and an interview to conduct, I jump right into our interview by asking Jacques to elaborate on something he wrote in the foreword of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/essentialpepin/book-dvds/\">\u003cem>Essential Pépin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: \"The appetites of a young, middle-aged, and an older man are different...\" Leaning back in the couch in KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2006/10/25/its-not-easy-being-green/\">greenroom\u003c/a>, Jacques notes that as you get older your metabolism changes, but also that, \"as a young chef, you tend to add to the plate. To add, to add, to add! And as you get older, you start to clean up, clean up, clean up the plate! Until you are left with the essential thing: \u003cem>that\u003c/em> tomato right there, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> olive oil, at \u003cem>that\u003c/em> temperature.\" I wonder aloud if this a function of being a young chef, of trying to impress people. \"It's a function of life,\" Jacques tells me and likens it to being a painter. \"An artist is going to clean, a kind of a purification. You go through a process to get more to the essential of whatever you are working on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One could hypothesize that so-called picky children are like this. They start with the essentials, the simple foods, and later they will add more and more to that repertoire. When they are taking in so much information at once as they develop and grow, it makes sense that they would stick with foods that are comforting and familiar to them. Things they can count on. Some people, like me, might go into adulthood as a picky eater and, as I researched and detailed in my book, the reasons for why or how that happens are many. But concentrating on the picky children who seem to plague parents so much more today than they did back when my parents were raising me, I ask Jacques whether his daughter Claudine ever went through a picky stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure, absolutely!\" Jacques responds instantly. \"Claudine loved string bean stew and all of a sudden, she hated string beans. And I said, 'Fine, you don't have to eat it.' And certainly, she loved snails, because she was three years old and she loved garlic and the butter and all that too, until she was six or seven and then she's at school and her friends said, 'YUCK! You're eating that?' And that's it -- no more of them!\" Jacques laughs and acknowledges that when kids reach a certain age, they want to conform to the other children around them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like my parents, Jacques' approach to Claudine going off string beans and escargot was to shrug it off. It didn't bother him, and he didn't get upset about it. Additionally, when it turned out that Claudine favored more unusual vegetables -- artichokes and Brussels sprouts -- Jacques didn't make a big deal about that, either. \"It's not like I went on my knees and said, 'Oh, my god!' No, we didn't even mention it. It doesn't even exist. It's there, you eat it. It comes, it goes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mention my feeling that today's parents are way more worried about picky eaters than in the past and, along with this, they expect their children to have accomplished palates at such a young age. Jacques' response is that America is a country of extremes. We go from 15-hour dishes to 15-second microwave dinners, and that there was a time where food wasn't really discussed at the table. It was there and you ate it. However, now we have the opposite situation where we're discussing and analyzing everything and expecting our kids to do the same. \"The kid is not meant to do that. No, the kid is just meant to enjoy the food, eat it, and that's it,\" Jacques pronounces. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Claudine was a child, Jacques use to take her to New York. Just the two of them. They would stay in a hotel and go to a movie, and after the movie, they would eat at restaurants like Brasserie or Lutèce. However, Claudine was used to all those fancy restaurants by the time she was six or seven, and on one visit, Jacques -- imitating Claudine's long-suffering tones -- says she asked, \"Can we go to Burger King?\" Jacques laughs and says his response was, \"Okay, fine!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There you go, just like Julia Child proudly admitted her affinity for McDonald's fries, Jacques Pépin, the celebrated chef who cooked for the likes of Charles de Gaulle and who chefs today admire and revere, had no problem taking his daughter to Burger King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The food follows your mood, follows the season, follows the ingredient. And don't talk too much, analyze it too much, just enjoy it.\" Laughing as he cites people's reaction to freaking out over putting butter on bread, Jacques explains, \"I say, 'Look, if you don't want to eat butter, don't eat it. Because if you eat it, you aren't going to digest it the right way. Your gastric juices are going to come back and you're going to have sourness. Don't eat it if it disturbs you. You have to be happy. You have to be happy when you cook and certainly you have to be happy when you eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As our conversation naturally turned from eating with kids to cooking with kids, Jacques told me that last week his eight-year-old granddaughter Shorey said to Claudine, \"Mom, I think want to cook with Jacques.\" Claudine's response was, \"Well, that's fine, darling, but I don't think you should call your grandfather Jacques.\" Shorey started crying and said, \"I didn't mean him, I want to cook with Jacques Torres!\" As Jacques pronounces this famous chocolatier's name, his voice chokes with appreciative mirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-laughing.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steph-jp-laughing.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pépin in the KQED Green Room. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Stephanie Lucianovic interviews Jacques Pépin in the KQED Green Room. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42315\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn't intend to get into food politics, but after Jacques tells me his publishers thought skinning a rabbit on the DVD accompaniment to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/essentialpepin/\">\u003cem>Essential Pepin\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was too traumatizing (adding that if he killed and skinned a rabbit on stage, \"I would probably be assassinated more than if I killed my wife!\"), Jacques himself brings up the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/13/forbidden-foie-gras/\">California foie gras ban\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have no idea what they are talking about. And the worst is that they are righteous,\" Jacques announces. Stating that no one would pass a law banning the large industrial chicken farms that abuse their poultry with beak trimming and other atrocities, Jacques details that the way foie gras-destined ducks are treated is actually a \"natural process\" that both the Ancient Egyptians and Romans practiced long before the French came along. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Way back then it was discovered that when a duck or goose was killed at migration time, the liver was twice as large as normal. Additionally, it was noted that after migration, the liver shrank down again. Jacques explains this is the liver's reaction to the overeating that is necessary for sustained migration. The Egyptians and Romans learned they could overfeed the ducks outside of migration and achieve this same affect. \"But if you've been on a farm,\" Jacques explains, \"the first day the duck is a little surprised when they put the [gavage] in and give him the mush...but after one day, they come to get it.\" Jacques continues that the animal does not suffer, and that, in fact, there can't be any trauma whatsoever, because if the animal is traumatized, it actually compromises the quality of the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That discussion emboldens me to get his opinion on another hot button food topic: Paula Deen. Reminding him that Anthony Bourdain once called Paula Deen \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-19/news/ct-bourdain-vs-deen_1_paula-deen-anthony-bourdain-dangerous-person\">\"the worst, most dangerous person to America,\"\u003c/a> I ask Jacques whether Deen's recent diabetes diagnosis was really any of the public's business. \"No, it's not right. That's the way she cooks -- just like many other people in the South, like me occasionally -- and this is a condition people get. Who knows, if she lived in Provence and cooked the Mediterranean way that she wouldn't have the same condition anyway? We are cooks, we aren't doctors.\" As to whether or not Deen and others have any responsibility to their viewers, Jacques explained, \"I have 700 recipes and of those, some are classic French recipes and are plenty rich. I have no choice what people are going to cook. I have no choice in how much people are going to drink.\" Jacques chuckles that people freak out when he tells him he and his wife Gloria drink two bottles over dinner. \"Well yes,\" he details, \"I start cooking at 4:00 in the afternoon and I open a bottle of white wine and by the time we eat at 7:00, we've finished that bottle of white wine and we open a bottle of red wine.\" Jacques concludes this by saying he's recently decided to exclusively buy magnums of wine. \"So when my doctor asks, I will say, 'Oh, I only drink one bottle.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A contributor to Bay Area Bites since its inception, Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a Bay Area food writer and editor. Her first book \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Suffering-Succotash-Picky-Eaters-Understand/dp/0399537503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335055355&sr=8-1\">Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate\u003c/a> is a humorous non-fiction narrative and exposé on the lives of picky eaters. It releases from Perigee Books July 3rd.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/42187/jacques-pepin-talks-picky-eating-foie-gras-and-paula-deen","authors":["5010"],"categories":["bayareabites_752","bayareabites_2254","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_588","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_45","bayareabites_1593"],"tags":["bayareabites_8476","bayareabites_1786","bayareabites_10323","bayareabites_242","bayareabites_10369","bayareabites_10367","bayareabites_102","bayareabites_10368"],"featImg":"bayareabites_42313","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_41511":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_41511","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"41511","score":null,"sort":[1334322020000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"forbidden-foie-gras","title":"Forbidden Foie Gras","publishDate":1334322020,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-17.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-17.jpg\" alt=\"txoko foie gras dinner\" title=\"txoko foie gras dinner\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41537\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Petit Sale, Foie Gras a la Plancha with Lentils at Txoko\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hurried along in the cloak of darkness, skirting the lamp posts, our footsteps echoing on the wet cobblestone. We reached our destination, threw a quick look over our shoulders to make sure we weren’t being followed, and then approached the discreet door, solid, bolted. One long knock followed by three swift knocks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Password: \u003cem>quack quack\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cstrong>foie gras dinner\u003c/strong> awaits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*****\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ok, so maybe it wasn’t quite so dramatic. But with California’s upcoming \u003cstrong>ban on foie gras\u003c/strong> slated for July 1 (\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040SB1520\">Senate Bill 1520\u003c/a>), who knows what kind of clandestine measures we’ll have to take to get a taste of the forbidden foie?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I predict a healthy black market, astronomic prices, and a resurgence of speakeasy grilles in the door design world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivid imagination aside, the morality of producing, serving, and eating foie gras is a hotly debated, emotional topic from both sides. At the crux of the matter is the practice of \u003cem>gavage\u003c/em>, the use of a funnel inserted into the duck/goose’s esophagus to force-feed grain over the final few weeks of its life. Those in favor of the foie gras ban argue that the practice of gavage is cruel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against the ban counter that the animals do not suffer from gavage because of a number of \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanfoiegras.com/articles/GuemeneLetter.pdf\">physiological reasons\u003c/a>. The digestive tracts of duck and geese, and other similar water fowl, are made to accommodate the swallowing of large prey, whole. They lack a gag reflex. Their esophagus is not sensitive and is lined with keratin, not the delicate mucus membrane found in humans. Unlike humans, the opening of a duck’s trachea sits in the middle of their tongue. Because of this anatomical feature, their upper respiratory tract is not blocked during gavage, so they are able to breathe during the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High profile chefs have taken stances of the matter. In a letter to fellow California restaurateurs, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2012/03/wolfgang_puck_sends_letter_to.php#more\">Wolfgang Puck\u003c/a> writes: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nAs a chef, a businessman, and someone who cares about the humane treatment of animals, I'm writing to let you know why I support this particular law, and why I hope you'll give it your full support, as well…We chefs have the ability to create delicious and original dishes our customers will love without causing torment to animals.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0504070058apr07,0,3549007.story?page=1\">Charlie Trotter\u003c/a> has also vocally spoken out against foie gras, while \u003ca href=\"http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/table-talk-frere-jacques/\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a> calls California’s banning of foie gras \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nTotally ridiculous.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The debate over the ethics of foie gras is full of passionate opinions, but California’s ban brings up another issue of \u003cstrong>choice\u003c/strong>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://incanto.biz/2009/02/01/shock-foie/\">Mark Pastore\u003c/a>, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://incanto.biz/\">Incanto\u003c/a>, brings this point to light: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nReasonable people can disagree over the ethics of one’s chosen diet and the various practices of farmers, whether those farmers produce meat, fruits, or vegetables. Fundamentally, we believe that individuals ought to be free to determine how to live their lives, including their diet… \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We respect the right to oppose the production and consumption of foie gras. We relate to many of the reasons that some choose to do so. However, we no more cede control over our morality than we would presume to compel someone else to conform to our notions of how they ought to live their life. We do not grant permission to someone who has no legal, moral, or spiritual authority to impose their beliefs upon us, whether that person is demanding we adopt their point of view regarding foie gras, abortion, or what books we should read. These are all personal choices and should remain so.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-3.jpg\" alt=\"Txoko, SF\" title=\"Txoko, SF\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41532\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Foie Gras Dinner, Txoko SF\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many restaurants have already started taking foie gras off their menu, others have done the exact opposite, choosing to honor the luscious lobe with special foie-centric menus. From the looks of the sold-out events, the countdown to July 1 has foie gras lovers eager to indulge while they can. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/06/10/dishcrawl-real-life-culinary-social-networking/\">Dishcrawl\u003c/a> is hosting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dishcrawl.com/foiebattle/\">Foie Battle\u003c/a> -- a series of intimate foie gras dinners featuring various chefs at secret locations throughout the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/txoko-at-bar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/txoko-at-bar.jpg\" alt=\"Txoko at bar\" title=\"Txoko at bar\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41539\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Txoko, SF\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I attended one of these dinners last week at \u003ca href=\"http://www.txokosf.com/\">Txoko\u003c/a> (pronounced \u003cem>CHO-ko\u003c/em>). The Basque-inspired restaurant is owned by \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/03/29/why-we-serve-foie-gras/\">Ryan Maxey\u003c/a> and chef \u003cstrong>Ian Begg\u003c/strong>, the same guys behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.nakedlunchsf.com/\">Naked Lunch\u003c/a> (and its claim to fame, the \u003cstrong>Foie Gras & Duck Prosciutto Sandwich\u003c/strong>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-11.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-11.jpg\" alt=\"Txoko bar\" title=\"Txoko bar\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41534\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Txoko Bar\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cocktails by bar master \u003cstrong>Jason Brown\u003c/strong> are creative and dangerously tasty. I tried the \u003cstrong>Cool Hand Luke Fizz\u003c/strong>, made with Fighting Cock Bourbon, bitters, Mexican Coke, and frothy egg whites. Basically a bourbon float. Happy times. I’m already looking forward to future pintxos-laden happy hours so I can sample a few more of Brown’s concoctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-8-v2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-8-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster in Foie Gras Cream\" title=\"Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster in Foie Gras Cream\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41533\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster in Foie Gras Cream\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our decadent meal started off with a \u003cstrong>Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster\u003c/strong> floating in a pool of \u003cstrong>foie gras cream\u003c/strong>, garnished with pickled cucumber, a chiffonade of anise-y flavored shiso, and vibrant droplets of chili oil. The starter was well-balanced and full of bright flavors to whet our palate. My dining partners and I all noticed that the foie gras cream had a familiar tang to it. After a few moments of flipping through my brain’s Filofax of flavor recognition, I had the answer: \u003cstrong>White Cheddar Cheez-Its\u003c/strong>. There was unanimous agreement that I was indeed spot-on correct. We called Ryan over to confirm. He insisted the cream was just made of foie renderings and cream…let’s just agree to disagree, Ryan. We know there’s pulverized Cheez-Its in there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-13.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-13.jpg\" alt=\"Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\" title=\"Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41535\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next came a \u003cstrong>Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\u003c/strong> with toasted almonds, muscato gelee, and arugula, over toasted pain de mie and slices of meyer lemon. The flavor of the foie gras torchon was beautiful, like salted butter set out on a path of seduction. The muscato gelee was a playful touch, cool on the tongue and brought out the sweetness of the meyer lemon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-16.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-16.jpg\" alt=\"Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop\" title=\"Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41536\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop in Foie Sauce\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop\u003c/strong> graced our table next, nestled over velvety potato coulis and hen of the woods cooked in a \u003cstrong>foie gras sauce\u003c/strong> fragranced with sage. The foie flavor was subdued in this dish and had to be sought out. The hen of the woods shone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big foie finish was the \u003cstrong>Petit Sale\u003c/strong>, a, eye-popping portion of gorgeously seared \u003cstrong>Foie Gras a la Plancha\u003c/strong>, over a bed of creamy beluga lentils, fava beans, green garlic, and mirepoix. A few rosettes of sweet duck jamon (translation for Italians: duck prosciutto) adorned the plate. The crowning jewel was a perfect crispy puff of \u003ca href=\"http://lickmyspoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/chicharrones-2.jpg\">4505 chicharrone\u003c/a>. The dish was at once fresh and Spring and luxuriously rich. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-18-v2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-18-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Foie Gras Ice Cream\" title=\"Foie Gras Ice Cream\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41538\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Foie Gras Ice Cream\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know you’ve been wondering this whole time how a foie gras dessert would pan out. The answer is \u003cstrong>Foie Gras Ice Cream\u003c/strong>. Before you cringe, hear me out. I’ve tried sweets made with duck fat before…and it is a fine line. It takes restraint and the right flavor pairings to make it work. Txoko’s Foie Gras Ice Cream succeeds in doing just that. The foie flavor in the ice cream is subtle, so that you’re delighted when you look for it. It tastes vaguely of toasted nuts and coconut milk. The ice cream base is made with cream and foie gras renderings (similar to the foie cream in our first course, minus the Cheez-Its of course). Caramel-y prunes in syrup and bits of buttery shortbread cookies accompany the ice cream for a perfect ending to the meal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From now until July 1, you can savor your forbidden foie gras at \u003ca href=\"http://www.txokosf.com/\">Txoko\u003c/a> -- their signature dish on the regular menu is \u003cstrong>Foie Gras a la Plancha\u003c/strong>, served with golden raisin sauce, caramelized Brussels sprouts, pain de mie, and duck prosciutto. They also offer a \u003cstrong>Four Course Foie Gras Prix-Fixe Dinner every Wednesday Night\u003c/strong> ($55 per person). The menu rotates on a weekly basis. All their foie gras is sourced from \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanfoiegras.com/\">Sonoma Artisan Foie Gras\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*****\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, it's hard to weigh in on this controversial topic. It's a debate that has gotten \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/22/BA266523.DTL&ao=all\">ugly\u003c/a> before, even here in San Francisco, a place many of us like to consider above average on the tolerant and progressive scale. Will I start getting hate mail because I find foie gras delicious? (I really hope not). Is eating and enjoying foie gras ethical? Do animals suffer for my gastronomic pleasure? Are there more important issues concerning our nation's food systems that could benefit from all this energy debating foie gras? As someone who cares about what I eat, these are the questions I ask myself. At the same time, as someone who values the freedom of choice, S.B. 1520 sure feels like a slippery slope. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why not focus on responsible and humane farming? Crafting standards, promoting reform, supporting farmers who are treating their animals with care -- that sounds like a more productive, long-term plan than outright prohibition. \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/04/in-favor-of-foie-gras-ken-frank-speaks-out.html\">Ken Frank\u003c/a>, chef of Napa Valley's \u003ca href=\"http://latoque.com/\">La Toque\u003c/a> recently wrote to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nLet’s repeal AB 1520 [\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040SB1520\">sic\u003c/a>\u003c/em>], which will create the biggest black market since Prohibition, and replace it with the world’s highest standards for humane foie gras. A black market removes any incentive to treat the animals well and focuses instead on \"not getting caught.\" To be clear, it will not help the ducks. I’m advocating a \"win-win.\" Every chef I know supports humane farming. We’ll be happy to work with Mr. Burton and others that support humane farming to craft standards that establish California as the global leader in Humane Foie Gras.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"http://vegan.com/blog/2012/04/12/the-biggest-black-market-since-prohibition/\">The biggest black market since Prohibition\u003c/a>\" may be an exaggeration, given the market size of people who consume foie gras is a fraction of those who consumed alcohol during Prohibition, but the point is made. There will be a black market, and what will be the consequences of it? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll leave you with this \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/02/01/foie-gras-duck-duck-goose/\">incredible story\u003c/a>. There is a man in the western region of Spain they call the \u003cstrong>Goose Whisperer\u003c/strong>. He cares for what may be the happiest geese in the world. They gorge on acorns and olives, figs too. They feel safe. They call to their wild brethren above and tell them to come down and join them in paradise, where they are protected and there is plenty of good food to eat. They are not force fed by humans. They produce the sweetest, richest, most sublime tasting liver possible. If we could figure out how to replicate this kind of foie gras farming, now that would be something. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foie for Thought:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html\">Dan Barber's Foie Gras Parable on TED Talks\u003c/a> – Ecological, ethical, possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919163,00.html\">Can Ethical Foie Gras Happen in America?\u003c/a> – The Goose Whisperer comes to New York\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/foie_gras_countdown/\">Sfoodie’s Foie Gras Countdown\u003c/a> – Where to get your foie fill before 7/1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chow.com/food-news/105127/how-to-store-foie-gras/\">Russell Jackson, chef-owner of Lafitte, on How to Store Foie Gras\u003c/a> – Preparing for Foiemageddon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The countdown to California’s ban on foie gras, slated for July 1, has foie gras lovers eager to indulge while they can. A look at what chefs are saying about the ban, and a peek into what the future may hold.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1334278746,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1888},"headData":{"title":"Forbidden Foie Gras | KQED","description":"The countdown to California’s ban on foie gras, slated for July 1, has foie gras lovers eager to indulge while they can. A look at what chefs are saying about the ban, and a peek into what the future may hold.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Forbidden Foie Gras","datePublished":"2012-04-13T13:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2012-04-13T00:59:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"41511 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=41511","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/13/forbidden-foie-gras/","disqusTitle":"Forbidden Foie Gras","path":"/bayareabites/41511/forbidden-foie-gras","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-17.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-17.jpg\" alt=\"txoko foie gras dinner\" title=\"txoko foie gras dinner\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41537\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Petit Sale, Foie Gras a la Plancha with Lentils at Txoko\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hurried along in the cloak of darkness, skirting the lamp posts, our footsteps echoing on the wet cobblestone. We reached our destination, threw a quick look over our shoulders to make sure we weren’t being followed, and then approached the discreet door, solid, bolted. One long knock followed by three swift knocks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Password: \u003cem>quack quack\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cstrong>foie gras dinner\u003c/strong> awaits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*****\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ok, so maybe it wasn’t quite so dramatic. But with California’s upcoming \u003cstrong>ban on foie gras\u003c/strong> slated for July 1 (\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040SB1520\">Senate Bill 1520\u003c/a>), who knows what kind of clandestine measures we’ll have to take to get a taste of the forbidden foie?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I predict a healthy black market, astronomic prices, and a resurgence of speakeasy grilles in the door design world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivid imagination aside, the morality of producing, serving, and eating foie gras is a hotly debated, emotional topic from both sides. At the crux of the matter is the practice of \u003cem>gavage\u003c/em>, the use of a funnel inserted into the duck/goose’s esophagus to force-feed grain over the final few weeks of its life. Those in favor of the foie gras ban argue that the practice of gavage is cruel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against the ban counter that the animals do not suffer from gavage because of a number of \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanfoiegras.com/articles/GuemeneLetter.pdf\">physiological reasons\u003c/a>. The digestive tracts of duck and geese, and other similar water fowl, are made to accommodate the swallowing of large prey, whole. They lack a gag reflex. Their esophagus is not sensitive and is lined with keratin, not the delicate mucus membrane found in humans. Unlike humans, the opening of a duck’s trachea sits in the middle of their tongue. Because of this anatomical feature, their upper respiratory tract is not blocked during gavage, so they are able to breathe during the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High profile chefs have taken stances of the matter. In a letter to fellow California restaurateurs, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2012/03/wolfgang_puck_sends_letter_to.php#more\">Wolfgang Puck\u003c/a> writes: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nAs a chef, a businessman, and someone who cares about the humane treatment of animals, I'm writing to let you know why I support this particular law, and why I hope you'll give it your full support, as well…We chefs have the ability to create delicious and original dishes our customers will love without causing torment to animals.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0504070058apr07,0,3549007.story?page=1\">Charlie Trotter\u003c/a> has also vocally spoken out against foie gras, while \u003ca href=\"http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/table-talk-frere-jacques/\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a> calls California’s banning of foie gras \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nTotally ridiculous.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The debate over the ethics of foie gras is full of passionate opinions, but California’s ban brings up another issue of \u003cstrong>choice\u003c/strong>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://incanto.biz/2009/02/01/shock-foie/\">Mark Pastore\u003c/a>, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://incanto.biz/\">Incanto\u003c/a>, brings this point to light: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nReasonable people can disagree over the ethics of one’s chosen diet and the various practices of farmers, whether those farmers produce meat, fruits, or vegetables. Fundamentally, we believe that individuals ought to be free to determine how to live their lives, including their diet… \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We respect the right to oppose the production and consumption of foie gras. We relate to many of the reasons that some choose to do so. However, we no more cede control over our morality than we would presume to compel someone else to conform to our notions of how they ought to live their life. We do not grant permission to someone who has no legal, moral, or spiritual authority to impose their beliefs upon us, whether that person is demanding we adopt their point of view regarding foie gras, abortion, or what books we should read. These are all personal choices and should remain so.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-3.jpg\" alt=\"Txoko, SF\" title=\"Txoko, SF\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41532\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Foie Gras Dinner, Txoko SF\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many restaurants have already started taking foie gras off their menu, others have done the exact opposite, choosing to honor the luscious lobe with special foie-centric menus. From the looks of the sold-out events, the countdown to July 1 has foie gras lovers eager to indulge while they can. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/06/10/dishcrawl-real-life-culinary-social-networking/\">Dishcrawl\u003c/a> is hosting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dishcrawl.com/foiebattle/\">Foie Battle\u003c/a> -- a series of intimate foie gras dinners featuring various chefs at secret locations throughout the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/txoko-at-bar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/txoko-at-bar.jpg\" alt=\"Txoko at bar\" title=\"Txoko at bar\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41539\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Txoko, SF\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I attended one of these dinners last week at \u003ca href=\"http://www.txokosf.com/\">Txoko\u003c/a> (pronounced \u003cem>CHO-ko\u003c/em>). The Basque-inspired restaurant is owned by \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/03/29/why-we-serve-foie-gras/\">Ryan Maxey\u003c/a> and chef \u003cstrong>Ian Begg\u003c/strong>, the same guys behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.nakedlunchsf.com/\">Naked Lunch\u003c/a> (and its claim to fame, the \u003cstrong>Foie Gras & Duck Prosciutto Sandwich\u003c/strong>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-11.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-11.jpg\" alt=\"Txoko bar\" title=\"Txoko bar\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41534\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Txoko Bar\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cocktails by bar master \u003cstrong>Jason Brown\u003c/strong> are creative and dangerously tasty. I tried the \u003cstrong>Cool Hand Luke Fizz\u003c/strong>, made with Fighting Cock Bourbon, bitters, Mexican Coke, and frothy egg whites. Basically a bourbon float. Happy times. I’m already looking forward to future pintxos-laden happy hours so I can sample a few more of Brown’s concoctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-8-v2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-8-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster in Foie Gras Cream\" title=\"Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster in Foie Gras Cream\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41533\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster in Foie Gras Cream\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our decadent meal started off with a \u003cstrong>Glazed Marin Miyagi Oyster\u003c/strong> floating in a pool of \u003cstrong>foie gras cream\u003c/strong>, garnished with pickled cucumber, a chiffonade of anise-y flavored shiso, and vibrant droplets of chili oil. The starter was well-balanced and full of bright flavors to whet our palate. My dining partners and I all noticed that the foie gras cream had a familiar tang to it. After a few moments of flipping through my brain’s Filofax of flavor recognition, I had the answer: \u003cstrong>White Cheddar Cheez-Its\u003c/strong>. There was unanimous agreement that I was indeed spot-on correct. We called Ryan over to confirm. He insisted the cream was just made of foie renderings and cream…let’s just agree to disagree, Ryan. We know there’s pulverized Cheez-Its in there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-13.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-13.jpg\" alt=\"Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\" title=\"Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41535\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next came a \u003cstrong>Salt Cured Foie Gras Torchon\u003c/strong> with toasted almonds, muscato gelee, and arugula, over toasted pain de mie and slices of meyer lemon. The flavor of the foie gras torchon was beautiful, like salted butter set out on a path of seduction. The muscato gelee was a playful touch, cool on the tongue and brought out the sweetness of the meyer lemon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-16.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-16.jpg\" alt=\"Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop\" title=\"Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41536\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop in Foie Sauce\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pan Seared Day Boat Scallop\u003c/strong> graced our table next, nestled over velvety potato coulis and hen of the woods cooked in a \u003cstrong>foie gras sauce\u003c/strong> fragranced with sage. The foie flavor was subdued in this dish and had to be sought out. The hen of the woods shone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big foie finish was the \u003cstrong>Petit Sale\u003c/strong>, a, eye-popping portion of gorgeously seared \u003cstrong>Foie Gras a la Plancha\u003c/strong>, over a bed of creamy beluga lentils, fava beans, green garlic, and mirepoix. A few rosettes of sweet duck jamon (translation for Italians: duck prosciutto) adorned the plate. The crowning jewel was a perfect crispy puff of \u003ca href=\"http://lickmyspoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/chicharrones-2.jpg\">4505 chicharrone\u003c/a>. The dish was at once fresh and Spring and luxuriously rich. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-18-v2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/2012-04-txoko-dishcrawl-foie-battle-stephanie-hua-lick-my-spoon-18-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Foie Gras Ice Cream\" title=\"Foie Gras Ice Cream\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41538\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Foie Gras Ice Cream\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know you’ve been wondering this whole time how a foie gras dessert would pan out. The answer is \u003cstrong>Foie Gras Ice Cream\u003c/strong>. Before you cringe, hear me out. I’ve tried sweets made with duck fat before…and it is a fine line. It takes restraint and the right flavor pairings to make it work. Txoko’s Foie Gras Ice Cream succeeds in doing just that. The foie flavor in the ice cream is subtle, so that you’re delighted when you look for it. It tastes vaguely of toasted nuts and coconut milk. The ice cream base is made with cream and foie gras renderings (similar to the foie cream in our first course, minus the Cheez-Its of course). Caramel-y prunes in syrup and bits of buttery shortbread cookies accompany the ice cream for a perfect ending to the meal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From now until July 1, you can savor your forbidden foie gras at \u003ca href=\"http://www.txokosf.com/\">Txoko\u003c/a> -- their signature dish on the regular menu is \u003cstrong>Foie Gras a la Plancha\u003c/strong>, served with golden raisin sauce, caramelized Brussels sprouts, pain de mie, and duck prosciutto. They also offer a \u003cstrong>Four Course Foie Gras Prix-Fixe Dinner every Wednesday Night\u003c/strong> ($55 per person). The menu rotates on a weekly basis. All their foie gras is sourced from \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanfoiegras.com/\">Sonoma Artisan Foie Gras\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*****\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, it's hard to weigh in on this controversial topic. It's a debate that has gotten \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/22/BA266523.DTL&ao=all\">ugly\u003c/a> before, even here in San Francisco, a place many of us like to consider above average on the tolerant and progressive scale. Will I start getting hate mail because I find foie gras delicious? (I really hope not). Is eating and enjoying foie gras ethical? Do animals suffer for my gastronomic pleasure? Are there more important issues concerning our nation's food systems that could benefit from all this energy debating foie gras? As someone who cares about what I eat, these are the questions I ask myself. At the same time, as someone who values the freedom of choice, S.B. 1520 sure feels like a slippery slope. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why not focus on responsible and humane farming? Crafting standards, promoting reform, supporting farmers who are treating their animals with care -- that sounds like a more productive, long-term plan than outright prohibition. \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/04/in-favor-of-foie-gras-ken-frank-speaks-out.html\">Ken Frank\u003c/a>, chef of Napa Valley's \u003ca href=\"http://latoque.com/\">La Toque\u003c/a> recently wrote to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nLet’s repeal AB 1520 [\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040SB1520\">sic\u003c/a>\u003c/em>], which will create the biggest black market since Prohibition, and replace it with the world’s highest standards for humane foie gras. A black market removes any incentive to treat the animals well and focuses instead on \"not getting caught.\" To be clear, it will not help the ducks. I’m advocating a \"win-win.\" Every chef I know supports humane farming. We’ll be happy to work with Mr. Burton and others that support humane farming to craft standards that establish California as the global leader in Humane Foie Gras.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"http://vegan.com/blog/2012/04/12/the-biggest-black-market-since-prohibition/\">The biggest black market since Prohibition\u003c/a>\" may be an exaggeration, given the market size of people who consume foie gras is a fraction of those who consumed alcohol during Prohibition, but the point is made. There will be a black market, and what will be the consequences of it? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll leave you with this \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/02/01/foie-gras-duck-duck-goose/\">incredible story\u003c/a>. There is a man in the western region of Spain they call the \u003cstrong>Goose Whisperer\u003c/strong>. He cares for what may be the happiest geese in the world. They gorge on acorns and olives, figs too. They feel safe. They call to their wild brethren above and tell them to come down and join them in paradise, where they are protected and there is plenty of good food to eat. They are not force fed by humans. They produce the sweetest, richest, most sublime tasting liver possible. If we could figure out how to replicate this kind of foie gras farming, now that would be something. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foie for Thought:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html\">Dan Barber's Foie Gras Parable on TED Talks\u003c/a> – Ecological, ethical, possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919163,00.html\">Can Ethical Foie Gras Happen in America?\u003c/a> – The Goose Whisperer comes to New York\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/foie_gras_countdown/\">Sfoodie’s Foie Gras Countdown\u003c/a> – Where to get your foie fill before 7/1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chow.com/food-news/105127/how-to-store-foie-gras/\">Russell Jackson, chef-owner of Lafitte, on How to Store Foie Gras\u003c/a> – Preparing for Foiemageddon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/41511/forbidden-foie-gras","authors":["5037"],"categories":["bayareabites_752","bayareabites_50","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_9389","bayareabites_1786","bayareabites_10323","bayareabites_10322"],"featImg":"bayareabites_41535","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_14398":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_14398","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"14398","score":null,"sort":[1276835981000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rising-star-chefs-afterglow","title":"Rising Star Chefs Afterglow","publishDate":1276835981,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3099.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Stars Revue, Ghirardelli Square\" title=\"Rising Stars Revue, Ghirardelli Square\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Rising Stars Revue, Ghirardelli Square\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/06/09/starchefs-rising-stars-revue/\">Rising Stars Revue\u003c/a> proved to be a stellar event with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.starchefs.com/features/editors_dish/rising_stars/2010/san-francisco-bay-area/index.shtml\">14 award-winning chefs\u003c/a> selected by culinary magazine \u003ca href=\"http://starchefs.com/\">StarChefs.com\u003c/a> transforming Ghirardelli Square into a midsummer night's feast. The tasting gala and awards ceremony celebrated the Bay Area's brightest culinary talent, and the crowd was more than happy to bask in glow of their signature dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3327.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Stars Revue Louis Maldonado\" title=\"Rising Stars Revue Louis Maldonado\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14402\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Left: Aziza's Mourad Lahlou (winner of 2010 Rising Stars Mentor Award) and Center: Rising Star chef Louis Maldonado, prepare Marinated Striped Bass, Petrossian Caviar, Green Strawberries, and Brown Rice\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chefs impressed, with a flurry of intricately constructed small plates -- each one lovingly sauced, seasoned, and garnished before disappearing quickly into a throng of eager hands. With each bite, it became clear why these chosen few were crowned rising stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3276.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas McNaughton’s Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea\" title=\"Thomas McNaughton’s Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14401\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Thomas McNaughton's Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea, with butter sauce, pork jus, and fresh horseradish\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thomas McNaughton\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://flourandwater.com/\">flour + water\u003c/a> (nominated for the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant this year), served his soul-satisfying \u003cstrong>Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea\u003c/strong>. Yes, this ravioli had not one, but two fillings, piped in side by side (double the pleasure, double the fun). Bathed in a warm butter sauce and topped with grated Parmigiano and fresh horseradish, this hit the spot as the sun went down and the brisk bay air set in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3397.jpg\" alt=\"Brian MacGregor \" title=\"Brian MacGregor \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14403\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Brian MacGregor shakes up his Tippler's Delight\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian MacGregor\u003c/strong>, Rising Star mixologist at \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\">Jardiniere\u003c/a>, shook up a storm with his titillating \u003cstrong>Tippler's Delight\u003c/strong> (1½ ounces \u003ca href=\"http://www.bevmo.com/Shop/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=17610\">Navip Slivovitz\u003c/a>, ¾ ounce St. Germain, ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice, dash of absinthe, shaken with ice and strained). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if you're wondering what my favorite dish of the evening was, here comes the grand finale…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/foie-neige.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Nishiyama's Foie Gras Neige\" title=\"Scott Nishiyama's Foie Gras Neige\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14399\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Scott Nishiyama wows us with his Foie Gras \"Neige\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Nishiyama\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cheztj.com/\">Chez TJ\u003c/a>, hands down, took the cake for the most ridiculously delicious dish served at this event: \u003cstrong>Moulard Duck Foie Gras \"Neige,\" Blackberry Gelee, Cashew Puree, Sunchoke Salad, and Housemade Mustard Toast\u003c/strong>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the bottom of this heavenly dish was a smear of rich cashew butter. Scattered on top were little cubes of blackberry gelee and big, plump blackberries, some microgreens, and crispy baby radishes, sliced paper-thin. (In Nishiyama's original recipe, he uses sunchoke chisp rather than radishes). On the side rested a baton of brioche-like housemade mustard bread. And showered upon it all was the most glorious mound of shaved frozen foie gras. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I'll just let that sink in for a sec.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nishiyama (who cut his teeth at a few little places called \u003ca href=\"http://www.danielnyc.com/\">Daniel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.frenchlaundry.com/\">The French Laundry\u003c/a>) makes the foie gras torchon in-house, soaking it in Sauternes and seasoning it with kosher salt, sugar, pink salt, and white pepper. He then freezes it so that it can be grated into a fine snow-flurry of gastronomic bliss. And, it's not just a wee sprinkling he imparts, no, he keeps it coming until a lavish foie-blizzard has accumulated on your plate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ugh, I know I'm gushing like a smitten schoolgirl, but it really was simply divine. The frozen foie melted delicately on your tongue, and settled into the dish so that the creamy cashew puree took on its luxurious flavor. And the blackberry accents added just the amount of acidity needed to cut the richness, while bringing out the sweetness of the dish at the same time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently I wasn't alone in my sentiment. As people took their first bite, I witnessed reactions ranging from utterances of \"Holy Sh*t\" to sounds not suitable for children. Needless to say, the dish won the People's Choice award as best dish of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3722.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Star Chefs and Mentors\" title=\"Rising Star Chefs and Mentors\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14404\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Rising Stars and Mentors\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wining and dining carried on into the night, and then even further into the night at the industry-only after party hosted at Elizabeth Falkner’s \u003ca href=\"http://orsonsf.com/\">Orson\u003c/a>, where, by the way, I had my second O-face inducing taste of the evening –- a deep-fried Monte Cristo with melty gruyere and Canadian bacon, served with strawberry-raspberry jam and powdered sugar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A euphoric evening it was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe align=\"center\" src=\"http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=&user_id=31660775@N05&set_id=72157624174188887&tags=chefs,food,wine\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.starchefs.com/chefs/rising_stars/2010/san-francisco/index.shtml\">StarChefs.com’s Rising Stars Revue\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWednesday, June 16, 2010\u003cbr>\n7:30-10:00 pm\u003cbr>\nGhirardelli Square, SF\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A recap of the Rising Star Chefs Revue tasting gala and awards ceremony, and unabashed love for Foie Gras \"Neige.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1276835981,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":716},"headData":{"title":"Rising Star Chefs Afterglow | KQED","description":"A recap of the Rising Star Chefs Revue tasting gala and awards ceremony, and unabashed love for Foie Gras "Neige."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Rising Star Chefs Afterglow","datePublished":"2010-06-18T04:39:41.000Z","dateModified":"2010-06-18T04:39:41.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"14398 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=14398","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/06/17/rising-star-chefs-afterglow/","disqusTitle":"Rising Star Chefs Afterglow","path":"/bayareabites/14398/rising-star-chefs-afterglow","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3099.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Stars Revue, Ghirardelli Square\" title=\"Rising Stars Revue, Ghirardelli Square\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Rising Stars Revue, Ghirardelli Square\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/06/09/starchefs-rising-stars-revue/\">Rising Stars Revue\u003c/a> proved to be a stellar event with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.starchefs.com/features/editors_dish/rising_stars/2010/san-francisco-bay-area/index.shtml\">14 award-winning chefs\u003c/a> selected by culinary magazine \u003ca href=\"http://starchefs.com/\">StarChefs.com\u003c/a> transforming Ghirardelli Square into a midsummer night's feast. The tasting gala and awards ceremony celebrated the Bay Area's brightest culinary talent, and the crowd was more than happy to bask in glow of their signature dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3327.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Stars Revue Louis Maldonado\" title=\"Rising Stars Revue Louis Maldonado\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14402\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Left: Aziza's Mourad Lahlou (winner of 2010 Rising Stars Mentor Award) and Center: Rising Star chef Louis Maldonado, prepare Marinated Striped Bass, Petrossian Caviar, Green Strawberries, and Brown Rice\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chefs impressed, with a flurry of intricately constructed small plates -- each one lovingly sauced, seasoned, and garnished before disappearing quickly into a throng of eager hands. With each bite, it became clear why these chosen few were crowned rising stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3276.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas McNaughton’s Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea\" title=\"Thomas McNaughton’s Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14401\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Thomas McNaughton's Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea, with butter sauce, pork jus, and fresh horseradish\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thomas McNaughton\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://flourandwater.com/\">flour + water\u003c/a> (nominated for the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant this year), served his soul-satisfying \u003cstrong>Ravioli Doppio of Pork and Pea\u003c/strong>. Yes, this ravioli had not one, but two fillings, piped in side by side (double the pleasure, double the fun). Bathed in a warm butter sauce and topped with grated Parmigiano and fresh horseradish, this hit the spot as the sun went down and the brisk bay air set in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/Rising-Stars-Revue-06.16.10-3397.jpg\" alt=\"Brian MacGregor \" title=\"Brian MacGregor \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14403\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Brian MacGregor shakes up his Tippler's Delight\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian MacGregor\u003c/strong>, Rising Star mixologist at \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\">Jardiniere\u003c/a>, shook up a storm with his titillating \u003cstrong>Tippler's Delight\u003c/strong> (1½ ounces \u003ca href=\"http://www.bevmo.com/Shop/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=17610\">Navip Slivovitz\u003c/a>, ¾ ounce St. Germain, ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice, dash of absinthe, shaken with ice and strained). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if you're wondering what my favorite dish of the evening was, here comes the grand finale…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/06/foie-neige.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Nishiyama's Foie Gras Neige\" title=\"Scott Nishiyama's Foie Gras Neige\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14399\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Scott Nishiyama wows us with his Foie Gras \"Neige\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Nishiyama\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cheztj.com/\">Chez TJ\u003c/a>, hands down, took the cake for the most ridiculously delicious dish served at this event: \u003cstrong>Moulard Duck Foie Gras \"Neige,\" Blackberry Gelee, Cashew Puree, Sunchoke Salad, and Housemade Mustard Toast\u003c/strong>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the bottom of this heavenly dish was a smear of rich cashew butter. Scattered on top were little cubes of blackberry gelee and big, plump blackberries, some microgreens, and crispy baby radishes, sliced paper-thin. (In Nishiyama's original recipe, he uses sunchoke chisp rather than radishes). On the side rested a baton of brioche-like housemade mustard bread. And showered upon it all was the most glorious mound of shaved frozen foie gras. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I'll just let that sink in for a sec.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nishiyama (who cut his teeth at a few little places called \u003ca href=\"http://www.danielnyc.com/\">Daniel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.frenchlaundry.com/\">The French Laundry\u003c/a>) makes the foie gras torchon in-house, soaking it in Sauternes and seasoning it with kosher salt, sugar, pink salt, and white pepper. He then freezes it so that it can be grated into a fine snow-flurry of gastronomic bliss. And, it's not just a wee sprinkling he imparts, no, he keeps it coming until a lavish foie-blizzard has accumulated on your plate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ugh, I know I'm gushing like a smitten schoolgirl, but it really was simply divine. The frozen foie melted delicately on your tongue, and settled into the dish so that the creamy cashew puree took on its luxurious flavor. And the blackberry accents added just the amount of acidity needed to cut the richness, while bringing out the sweetness of the dish at the same time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently I wasn't alone in my sentiment. As people took their first bite, I witnessed reactions ranging from utterances of \"Holy Sh*t\" to sounds not suitable for children. 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It's especially provocative if you’re Dan Barber, buddy of Michael Pollan, chef of the acclaimed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluehillfarm.com/food/blue-hill-new-york\">Blue Hill\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluehillfarm.com/food/blue-hill-stone-barns\">Blue Hill at Stone Barns\u003c/a> restaurants, and very vocal advocate of local, seasonal, and sustainable cooking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the main reception room, a few minutes before the afternoon plenary session was to begin, I overheard Barber catching up with a farmer colleague. It seemed he’d just found out that he was expected to lecture, not just answer questions, on the panel alongside Annie Somerville of \u003ca href=\"http://www.greensrestaurant.com/\">Greens\u003c/a> and Judy Wicks of Philadelphia’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitedog.com/\">White Dog Cafe\u003c/a>. \"I'm just going to tell the foie gras story,\" he said, sounding exhausted, and I thought, “Foie gras? At Eco-Farm? Does this man know where he is?” After all, this is a confab of organic farmers and food-justice activists. Sure, there’s a passion for deliciousness, but in general, the talk is kale, not champagne. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage, Barber was unapologetic: for all his dirt-first politics, he’s a chef in love with flavor and texture, and to him, foie gras was the epitome: sweet, fatty, unctuous, able to make anything paired with it taste fantastic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Because it is, essentially, a small amount of liver flavoring a whole lot of fat. It gets that way due to \u003ci>gavage\u003c/i>, a controversial practice of force-feeding ducks and geese until their livers swell to several times their normal size. Chicago recently repealed a \u003ca href=\"http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2008/05/lobbying-on-foi.html\">two-year ban\u003c/a> on serving it in the city’s restaurants; Governor Schwarzenegger \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/california_bans_foie_gras.html\">signed a bill\u003c/a> outlawing the making and selling of force-fed foie gras in California by 2012. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber, however, had a mission. He followed his declaration with a detailed story of going to Spain to seek out Eduardo Sousa, a man who’d recently won France’s highest gastronomic award for foie gras. “When I arrived,” Barber related, “He was lying in the grass taking cell-phone pictures of his geese.” Sousa’s geese were pasture-raised, and his fences were only electrified on the outside against predators. Electrifying the inside would be insulting to the geese, Sousa insisted; they would feel themselves prisoners. Instead, as a third-generation goose steward, his job was to give his geese everything they needed to be happy (short of dying of old age), so they’d have no need to leave. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sousa didn’t practice gavage; instead, he followed the geese’s natural inclination to stuff themselves before winter. Come fall, as the days shortened and the temperatures dropped, he increased the amount of food available to his geese. They gobbled, and then, fat and happy, they met their end. Living on an herb-rich pasture as well as grains, their meat was layered with flavor, pre-seasoned from the inside out. “Who was the chef,” Barber found himself asking as he ate with Sousa, “And who was the farmer?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home in New York City, Barber did his research: Sousa’s method, he claimed, was the origin of foie gras. As Barber told it, Jewish communities in Egypt enjoyed foie gras as a natural by-product of winter-slaughtered geese. Upon tasting it, the pharoh demanded a year-round supply of the delicacy for the court, and so gavage was invented, to mimic the natural autumn voracity of the birds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the panel, restauranteur Judy Wicks had described her mission as “using good food to lure innocent customers into social activism.” Barber ended his talk by insisting, “The best decisions are almost always the most delicious.” Personally, I don’t eat foie gras, having no stomach for either the taste or the method. But for those who do, could pleasure reward compassion, making humanely-produced foie gras into a seasonal, winter-only delicacy offered by local poultry producers? It’s already a luxury item; why not make it a humane one, too? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Barber, making a similar case for humane foie gras at the Taste3 Conference in Napa.\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"445\" height=\"364\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/gvrgD0mAFoU&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1&showinfo=0\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/gvrgD0mAFoU&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1&showinfo=0\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For a high-profile chef from New York City, it takes a certain amount of moxie to stand up at the recent \u003ca href=\"“http://www.eco-farm.org/index.php/efc”\">Ecological Farming Conference\u003c/a> at Asilomar and admit how much you love foie gras. 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It's especially provocative if you’re Dan Barber, buddy of Michael Pollan, chef of the acclaimed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluehillfarm.com/food/blue-hill-new-york\">Blue Hill\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluehillfarm.com/food/blue-hill-stone-barns\">Blue Hill at Stone Barns\u003c/a> restaurants, and very vocal advocate of local, seasonal, and sustainable cooking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the main reception room, a few minutes before the afternoon plenary session was to begin, I overheard Barber catching up with a farmer colleague. It seemed he’d just found out that he was expected to lecture, not just answer questions, on the panel alongside Annie Somerville of \u003ca href=\"http://www.greensrestaurant.com/\">Greens\u003c/a> and Judy Wicks of Philadelphia’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitedog.com/\">White Dog Cafe\u003c/a>. \"I'm just going to tell the foie gras story,\" he said, sounding exhausted, and I thought, “Foie gras? At Eco-Farm? 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