Foie Gras Returns To Chicago

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  05.22.08 | 10:23 AM ET

It’s a victory for duck-liver lovers: the Chicago city council has overturned a ban on foie gras that was originally imposed two years ago at the urging of animal rights groups. Said one council member: “This is clearly a matter the council should stay out of and let the educated consumer and chefs make their own menu choices.” The repeal of the ban also means the end of another chapter in Chicago’s historic resistance to food-and-drink laws, as the illegal “duckeasies”—restaurants that had gone on serving foie gras without charging for it—will now return to the straight and narrow.

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Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Foie Gras Returns To Chicago

John M. Edwards 05.23.08 | 1:37 AM ET

Hi Eva:

The best foie gras I’ve ever had was in the Gers, a pleasant piece of Gascony whose fortified villages resemble something out of the 100 Years War. I housesat there for a British D-Day veteran, who said everybody just shot up in the air they were so excited. That’s when life was grand: 3 months in a 15th-century farmhouse.

Arianne Daguin, whose D’artagnan products put New Jersey on the map in the culinary world, is the daughter of master chef, Andre Daguin, owner of the Hotel de France, a multiple Michelin-rosetted stant, where “magret de canard” (duck breast cooked in its own fat) was invented.

Dig in.

John M. Edwards

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