Incanto, one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants, recently posted "Shock & Foie", a long & thoughtful piece about why they'll continue to serve foie gras at the restaurant:
Working to ban something that 99% of people never eat is not an act requiring great moral or physical courage in the same vein as was, say, the fight for civil rights in the U.S. or the fight for self rule in India. By comparison, the anti-foie gras movement is – at best – founded upon a shrewd political calculation in which the professed indignation of a few is used to harness the indifference of the many to the inherent political cowardice of elected officials, in order to achieve a desired political outcome. In essence, it's a confidence game in which participating meat-eaters, by agreeing to condemn something that they don't care about, receive the equivalent of a get-out-of-jail card, i.e., the right to feel slightly less guilty as they bite into that factory-farmed McNugget.
And from Serious Eats, a photo of Incanto's corzetti with foie gras, trotters, dates, and pangrattato. Now, I'm hungry.
great post Ben! i'm there with you :)
Posted by: Alex Deve | March 09, 2009 at 05:38 PM