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Maison Giraud -- Wonderful French Restaurant in Palisades!

Jay Weston | Posted 05.31.2012

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Maison Giraud is a wonder! It's a smart, sophisticated, casually elegant restaurant with authentic, superb three-star quality food at affordable prices.

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California's Foie Gras Feeding Frenzy

AP | By TRACIE CONE | Posted 05.30.2012

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-- This is not a good time to be a duck with a fatty liver in California, though better times lie just ahead. Chefs are loading their high-end menus...

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PHOTOS: Best Places To Indulge In Foie Gras Before The Ban

David J. Duman | Posted 05.30.2012

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June is almost upon us, which brings us to the (technically) last 30 days in which it is legal to sell foie gras in California. So now that you only have one month left to legally indulge in this delicacy, where in L.A. are the top spots to find it?

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Why The Foie Gras Debate Misses The Mark

Claudia Bicen | Posted 05.19.2012

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The biggest question for me is to what extent an abject disregard for the welfare of sentient beings can ever be justified in the name of luxury.

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WATCH: Foie Gras Food Fight At Melisse

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.15.2012

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Animal rights activists and foodies faced off Monday night over foie gras, a controversial French delicacy that's soon to be banned in California. ...

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Bourdain Goes Off On Foie Gras Opponents

Posted 05.12.2012

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The foie gras debate is heating up as certain protestors have adopted bullying tactics, sometimes illegal, to get their point across. And certain food...

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PHOTOS: Celebrity Chefs Campaign To Save Foie Gras

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 05.01.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (CHEFS) delivered a charter to State Assembly Speaker John Perez Monday urging...

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Wolfgang Puck Pens Letter To Restaurants Serving Foie Gras

| Posted 03.01.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's SFoodie. By Laura Beck Earlier this month, Wolfgang Puck, perhaps California's most famous chef...

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PETA: Don't Give Stars To Restaurants That Serve Foie Gras, Shark Fin Soup

Posted 02.08.2012

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There are plenty of reasons to dislike the Michelin Guide -- one can claim that it has a bias toward extremely expensive restaurants, that its descrip...

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8 Foods That Should Be Restricted Before Foie Gras

Posted 12.19.2011

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In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be illegal in California. Although animal rights activists may be cheering, several prominent chefs are di...

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Foie Gras With A Side Of Red Tape

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.07.2011

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Foie gras lovers had better order up now, because come July 2012, the dish will be illegal in California. The legislation was signed into effect b...

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Chef Quits Event Rather Than Drop Foie Gras From Menu

The Canadian Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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MONTREAL -- A famous Quebec chef has bowed out of Ottawa's winter festival in defiant defence of one of his staple dishes: foie gras. The Winterlude ...

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A Case For Foie: Why Foie Gras Is Not Unethical

Serious Eats | Posted by J. Kenji Lopez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is the production of foie gras torturous under even the best of conditions? Those on one side would answer yes. How could force feeding an animal e...

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Foie Gras: Something to Think About

Brad Haskel | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have listened to a lot of arguments regarding the treatment of ducks and geese in the production of foie gras, and I have to say that I really don't understand the moral dilemma.

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Thomas Keller Foie Gras Response To Protestors

Grub Street New York | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Animal Protection and Rescue League, which previously protested against Momofuku and outside of Telepan, is now targeting the big kahuna, Thomas K...

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Scientific Evidence Proves: Foie Gras is Foul

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Birds are in misery as pipes are shoved down their throats several times a day and they're pumped so full of food that their livers become diseased and balloon up.

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Foie Gras Museum Planned By Chicago Chef Didier Durand

Chicago Tribune | Patrick T. Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chef Didier Durand, who has taunted opponents of foie gras in the past, is now planning a small museum about the controversial specialty, made with th...

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Foie Gras Ban Alderman To Get Award

NBC 5 | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although Chicago's ban on foie gras was rolled back last spring, the man who championed the initial ban campaign is being honored this weekend for his...

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Chicago Overturns Foie Gras ban

New York Times | Nick Fox | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicagoans can feast on foie gras once more. The Chicago City Council just repealed the ban on its sale that it put in place two years ago. Monica Da...

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