Word: foie
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Raising ducks and chickens in the fresh air is a rooted way of life in the Landes region of southwestern France, where foie gras is the highest expression of both culinary excellence and regional identity. The Laffitte family has been in the poultry trade for the better part of a century, and neither chicken farmer Michel, 50, nor his duck-raising nephew Stéphane, 32, is about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these...
...YORK CITY Per Se In the first U.S. evaluations from Europe's prestigious Michelin guide, Thomas Keller is one of just four city chefs awarded three stars for culinary artistry for dishes like his stellar foie gras...
...YORK CITY PER SE In the first U.S. evaluations from Europe's prestigious Michelin guide, right, Thomas Keller is one of just four city chefs awarded three stars for culinary artistry. Above: Keller's stellar foie gras...
...Andrés is famed for serving fantastical avant-garde cuisine. But in his first book he focuses on the small plates of his native Spain. The croquetas, crab-filled cherry tomatoes, artichokes sauteed with ham and gazpacho explained here are more accessible to the everyday cook than, say, his foie gras cotton candy, but they're almost as fantastic...
...needs that control because he is fastidious about technology the way a gourmet is fastidious about foie gras, and he recognizes that in an increasingly networked world, in which gadgets can't just do their own thing but have to talk to one another, that conversation will go better if Jobs has scripted both sides of it. "One company makes the software. The other makes the hardware ... It's not working," Jobs says. "The innovation can't happen fast enough. The integration isn't seamless enough. No one takes responsibility for the user interface. It's a mess...