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Next time, however, I'll try to block out the pain and run the numbers. It turns out I didn't have appendicitis. I had a less serious (albeit briefly unbearable) ailment: a kidney stone, about 3mm in diameter. But don't let that fool you. It was a $12,000 kidney stone. (So you think you're insured...
...could that foie be reproduced elsewhere? Inspired by what he saw and tasted during his January 2008 visit to Sousa's farm, chef Dan Barber, whose second Blue Hill restaurant is located on the grounds of Stone Barns and who serves as the center's creative director, was determined to find out. He persuaded the center's farmers to dedicate part of their pasture to geese and to feed them the highest quality organic corn. There was only one problem: in his enthusiasm, Barber had somehow missed the importance of letting the birds forage for their own food. Accustomed...
...Stone Barns, with its pastured livestock and lush vegetable gardens, inspires the Spaniard. Touring the grounds with Barber and Craig Haney, the center's livestock manager, he repeats his verdict on the farm's foie-producing potential. It's exactly what the chef wants to hear, but Haney isn't so easily convinced. Stone Barns may look like someone's idyllic paean to sustainable agriculture, but it's also a working farm, and that means limited resources. After last year's debacle, Haney is letting the geese forage on grass but worries about the lack of acorns. "It doesn...
...considerably less sanguine, however, about the incubator in which Stone Barns hatches its chicks. In Extremadura, Sousa's geese build nests and hatch their own eggs; incubators, in his opinion, not only result in weaker birds, but also make it impossible to "convince" the geese that they're wild. Presented with a still wet Stone Barns chick, pulled from its heating tray, he shakes his head sadly. "If you wanted to raise a baby Rambo, would you want him living rough out in the country or coddled in an intensive-care unit...
...eggs per year, and for a diversified farm where each animal has to earn its keep, that's nowhere near enough eggs. Also, he prefers to be scientific in his experimentation, altering only one variable at a time. "Farms change in years," he says. "Not months." For now, Stone Barns' geese will be hatched in incubators...