Do geese see God?

Foie gras and the future of cooking.

Quiet, you chattering geese.

Dan Barber's foie gras parable

What's natural about foie gras?

He placed first for his foie gras.

That's the history of foie gras.

Not to mention a couple of swans.

I had a little too much goose liver.

A little too much goose liver.

You know, foie gras by definition, force feeding, it's gavage, and that's what you get when you want foie gras.

I'd had something that was called foie gras.

Chefs take foie gras and they make it their own.

It was impossible to get any goose this week.

How about Monsieur Barnathan, the gooseliver king?

There's not a food today that's more maligned than foie gras, right?

Whether we're talking about Brussels sprouts or foie gras.

Did I make any derogatory remark about the goose liver?

It's like foie gras it's not even like steak.

I merely said that I had too much goose liver.

I don't see how any pair of swans could cost 150. That was a gyp.

Can we produce a menu that's delicious without foie gras?

Eduardo can make more money selling those than he can on the foie gras.

He took me to his neighborhood restaurant and he served me some of his foie gras, confit de foie gras.

A little too much goose liver. Not one word more, and not one less.

It had all the qualities of foie gras, but its fat had a lot of integrity and a lot of honesty.

And he said to me, really from the first moment, my life's work is to give the geese what they want.

They invented gavage in a great moment of fear for their lives, and they provided the Pharaoh with gavage liver, and the good stuff they kept for themselves.

So, you either have to migrate like geese or hibernate like ground squirrels.

And in the corner of one of these one of my notes, is this note that says, when asked, what do you think of conventional foie gras?

So he got rid of the electricity, he got rid of current on the inside and kept it on the outside, so it would protect them against coyotes and other predators.

All I could think, sincerely, was Please, don't let Al Qaeda be training geese.

At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind of food production Barber believes in.

Another irony, the double irony is that on the figs and the olives, Eduardo can make more money selling those than he can on the foie gras.

Because he said to me that he felt like the geese and he proved this actually, not just a conceit, he proved this the geese felt manipulated when they were imprisoned in their little paddocks.

The most common quills were taken from the wings of geese or ravens, although the feathers of swans and peacocks were sometimes favored for prestige.

In World War II he was naval control officer for the St. Lawrence, then staff officer operations at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, then senior naval officer at Goose Bay, Labrador.

I heard the tread of a flock of geese, or else ducks, on the dry leaves in the woods by a pond hole behind my dwelling, where they had come up to feed, and the faint honk or quack of their leader as they hurried off.