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Caviar, foie gras and some other luxury food items may soon be harder to come by. It's not the scarcity or the cost; it's the proliferation of regulatory roadblocks. A look at some recent snafus at the gourmet counter...
...REVOIR TO FOIE GRAS? An outcry over animal cruelty has led to proposed legislation in California that would outlaw production and sale of the fatted duck and goose livers...
...fare ranges from Parisian-style dishes, such as terrine of foie gras or entrec?te, to classic Wiener schnitzel?which are pounded flat and nearly as large as a baseball glove. The wine list offers a broad international selection. On a really good expense account? Try the 1985 Ch?teau Mouton Rothschild 1st Cru Class for a mere...
...with warm rural smiles greeting their antics; and a hypermarket is never far away for baby food or Band-Aids. There's an abundance of affordable family accommodation, too, from self-catering farmhouses to bed-and-breakfasts. And for gourmets, this is gastronomic heaven: the Dordogne is duck, foie gras and truffle country...
...trump itself. A meal lasts for hours, alternating between sweet and savory, hot and cold, familiar and otherworldly: fried rabbit ears, for instance, translucently thin and tasting like pork rinds; spaghetti not topped with Parmesan but fashioned from it; carrots turned into foam, artichokes into puree, and foie gras into ice cream. For such alchemy, Adria maintains a "laboratory workshop" in nearby Barcelona, where he experiments with everything from centrifuges to cotton-candy machines. Adria sees Spain's pioneering departure from the norms set by French cuisine as only natural. "It is objectively true that Spain discovered America and brought...