Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $13,309
16%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 16%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: leavesmoreforme

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Foie gras could become faux pas in New Jersey

    08/27/2006 8:03:06 PM PDT · by Coleus · 11 replies · 466+ views
    Photo Gallery: Chef Gaspard Caloz prepares foie gras(please enable pop-ups to see the gallery)Foie gras? Au revoir.    Pate? Passe.One day, restaurant patrons might hear just that if New Jersey lawmakers join a growing movement against the fatty prepared livers of ducks and geese, the stuff of epicures' dreams -- and animal advocates' nightmares -- for 5,000 years.  On Tuesday, Chicago began enforcing a ban on the dish. California is phasing it out by 2012, and similar laws have been under consideration in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Oregon. Even Philadelphia -- famously fond of the cholesterol-loaded cheese steak --...