-- 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...
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?
When I lived in Paris, my boyfriend and I would go often to A Douchka in the Marais and eat blini after blini topped with those glistening, steel-grey pearls. But it's been awhile since I've indulged in a true caviar-orgy.
The foie gras debate is heating up as certain protestors have adopted bullying tactics, sometimes illegal, to get their point across. And certain food...
The foie gras debate is seemingly endless -- animal rights activists are never going to say that they support it, and it's unlikely that chefs are eve...
Science backs up common sense: Shoving pipes down birds' throat several times a day and pumping them so full of food that their livers become diseased and balloon up is horribly cruel.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (CHEFS) delivered a charter to State Assembly Speaker John Perez Monday urging...
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...
America's suburbs rarely support extremes of anything. So, when a chef like Michael Ginor opened his personal cuisine restaurant, Lola, in Great Neck in September 2009, I got involved and waited to see how daring he would be.
Wendy's is re-launching in Tokyo, Japan today, and it looks like the chain might be going after a slightly richer clientele. One of the new menu items...
WASHINGTON -- BLT Steak's new politically-charged burger menu isn't shying away from hot topics. The menu, which rotates on a daily basis, includes bu...
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...
WASHINGTON -- If there are two things that shouldn't go together but do oh so very well, then it must be the foie gras French toast at the Columbia Ro...
Duty-free shops have become retail destinations in their own right, offering coveted items at discounted prices and new things you actually can't get anywhere else.
The foie gras debate has gone on seemingly forever; at least long enough for a 368-page book about the controversy. The manifestations are many, but e...
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 ...
Fashion Foie Gras
For most of us a high-flying full-time career is more than enough, but not Emily Johnston - the (super)-woman behind the globally su...