Ludo Bites America: The Foie Gras Crusaders At Casa Pulido

Last night marked the finale of Krissy and Ludo Lefebvre's culinary road-trip across America, but the episode of "LudoBites America" did not go off without a hitch.

Before opening the doors of Casa Pulido, the host restaurant for Lefebvre's final pop-up, a group of protestors known as the "Foie Gras Crusaders" began to protest the Frenchman's use of his beloved luxury liver. The already-grumpy Chef Ludo took to using four-letter words (in both French and English) while Krissy laughed it all off.

But did these unarmed, unmasked assailants really cause the end of LudoBites domination? Not even close. Francophiles and foodies ordered the foie gras out of spite and out of curiosity -- as seen in the clip above.

The family-owned Casa Pulido, located in Redondo Beach, is near "the Lefebvre's home in Manhattan Beach," according to kevinEats. It proved to be a great end to the road trip and its not too far from LudoBites 007 -- the current pop-up restaurant -- at Gram and Papa's.

Comments

[jbinders]

08:31 PM on 08/28/2011

Please stop posting LudoBites biased pieces, he's really not that relevant in comparison.

[primaorangina]

06:48 PM on 08/26/2011

biased article, selfish people...they would've defended slavery and Hitler because they don't live altruistically...just selfish pleasure...more banal rich white people

[Levi Wilson]

05:06 PM on 08/28/2011

What's wrong with slavery? It stimulates the economy. And Hitler had a lot of good ideas! Oh, well, off to swim in my solid gold pool.

[O K Ali]

10:04 AM on 08/26/2011

I watched an episode of the "F Word" where is was shown the major shift in procedures of humanely producing foie gras. And it doesn't involve stuffing metal down a goose throat.

[IrishFast]

07:53 AM on 08/26/2011

Foie gras is all well and good, but I prefer it to come from kittens. The cuteness makes it taste oh so delicious.

[primaorangina]

01:09 AM on 08/26/2011

There are people who help animals, and people who hurt animals. It's as simple as that. Watch undercover video of a foie gras farm where the ducks and geese cower in the back of the cage as the worker comes by to grab their neck and stick the metal pipe down their throats. It's ridiculous that the chef and his wife attempt to come across as rebellious with the language, etc. They're part of the animal-torture industry...which is as mainstream as the oil industry, the defense industry, et al.

[Jack Tally]

10:50 PM on 08/25/2011

What's this? Another dumb reality TV show. The chef could only offer defensiveness and come across as rather stupid.

[Lorenzo46]

08:43 PM on 08/25/2011

Totally staged event for a dumb reality TV show.

[Jonathan Wadley]

08:03 PM on 08/25/2011

Foie gras is made by jamming a long metal tube down the throats of ducks and force feeding them for 3 to 4 weeks until their livers have swollen to more than 10 times their normal size. There's nothing natural or humane about that. It's really one of the most extreme forms of factory farming out there, which is why 15 countries have banned its production. If you want to see what the inside of a foie gras farm looks like, check out www.StopForceFeeding.com. James Bond will tell you all about it.

[TouchedByHisNoodlyness]

08:44 PM on 08/25/2011

dont knock it till you try it!

[French Toast]

08:56 PM on 08/25/2011

Try what? Having a long metal tube down your throat?

[Americatheteenager]

09:55 PM on 08/25/2011

Isn't that kind of like the feed lots used everywhere in America to fatten the cows???

[cameron d]

06:20 PM on 08/25/2011

I tried to be against Foie Gras, then I ate it.

[French Toast]

08:57 PM on 08/25/2011

I doubt either claim, really.

[cameron d]

10:27 PM on 08/25/2011

That's fine, doubt away. Doesn't stop it from being delicious.

[fishnetdiver]

05:00 AM on 08/26/2011

agree! very, VERY delicious!

[peskime]

12:46 AM on 08/27/2011

Nothing like eating the organ that filters all the toxins from the body. Yummy

[MtnGeek]

04:28 PM on 08/25/2011

Protests, the best advertising around, and it's free!

[dispagi]

07:59 PM on 08/26/2011

Were abolitionists helping to advertise human slavery by protesting it?

[ArChiMi]

02:22 PM on 08/25/2011

For all you who love fois gras like myself and all of you who like animals treated humanely, please see the link below. Dan Barber visited a farm in Spain where the geese are not forced fed and the fois gras won the best in France. I wish we could start doing in the US and all over the world.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html

[signgrrl]

03:05 PM on 08/25/2011

there is one place in america that doesn't, but i am blanking on the name right now.

[ArChiMi]

03:26 PM on 08/25/2011

That does or doesn't?

[climbing panda]

02:19 PM on 08/25/2011

the morimoto restaurant in hawaii has an oyster with foie gras and uni on top of it. it's like a wet dream in your mouth.

[ScoopLV]

02:24 PM on 08/25/2011

ewwww

C'mon, comments like that are going to put me off foie and uni.

[climbing panda]

02:29 PM on 08/25/2011

but it's brilliance on a half-shell

[French Toast]

02:07 PM on 08/25/2011

This isn't an article, it's a commercial.

Foie gras is terrible.

[ScoopLV]

02:10 PM on 08/25/2011

Replace "terrible" with "delicious" and you've got it right.

[French Toast]

02:19 PM on 08/25/2011

Replace your post with "blah blah blah" and you've got it right.

[Americatheteenager]

09:57 PM on 08/25/2011

If you don't like something that's all you need to say. Just finding t not to your taste does not make it terrible...

[hornedcog]

08:23 AM on 08/25/2011

They can eat it.

[plazmaorb]

07:18 AM on 08/25/2011

Go Ludo!... you tell those hippies and vegans... if they only knew its not that way for every farm that does that, but they aren't educated enough to know anything beyond the bad things.

[French Toast]

02:08 PM on 08/25/2011

You tell em, Moobs McGee.