Continuing in the string of delicious week-long food and drink events in Philly, Foie Gras Week — March 13-19 — is all but at our doorstep. In October 2007, Ariane Daguin, co-founder of D’Artagnan, the first company to provide fresh foir gras in the states, launched this five-dollar-foie-gras week among Philadelphia restaurants and, starting this weekend, it’s back. The list of participating restaurants includes some Phoodie favorites like Mémé and Bar Ferdinand, along with more than 15 others, some of which are putting Foie Gras on the menu specifically for the event. Each will be offering a five-dollar Foie Gras dish, a taste of the good life for any budget. Â
Of course this begs the question, will Hugs for Puppies, notorious anti-foie, bullhorn-whielding, wal-mart-documentary-watching protest group be around for the festivities? Well, not really, according to Mark Caro’s The Foie Gras Wars (2009):
The Restaurants participating in Daugin’s five-dollar-foie promotion were all but inviting Hugs for Puppies onto their doorsteps, but [Nick] Cooney [director of Hugs for Puppies] didn’t mobilize so much as dismiss the whole campaign. “It’s just a laughable event,” he said. “I’m sure it made them feel good. They certainly got their fair share of press about it, and perhaps in the minds of D’Artagnan and London Grill, they feel like they’re fighting back, but it hasn’t in any way changed the direction this is going.”
You never know though, right? Maybe bring some coffee, just in case.Â
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Laughably trivial, this Foie Gras kerfuffle–even if they’re right, they’re wrong. The impression left is not that of sensible, compassionate people, but a platform for posturing crypto-Puritans and self-appointed hall monitors who wish to appear conspicuously pious. One gets the sense that the animals are little more than an abstraction upon which they can hang their moral vanity. If anything, their antics only encourage more foie gras consumption: Nobody likes to have a priggish finger wagged in their face.
Anyone truly serious about the ethical implications of their eating habits would stop eating sushi, the harvesting of which is stripping our oceans bare and driving many species to extinction. That’s where the real fight is.
thanks for giving me a list of restaurants to poop on. seriously
annnnd thanks for deleting my previous comment.
I am a foodie. I eat foie gras maybe two times a year. I know that the geese in foie gras production are treated much better then your average grocery store egg layer or white breast chickens. Spend your energy defrauding that industry!
But I have to admit this counter campaign seems some what mean spirited and I want no parts of it.
mean spirited? have you seen what the hugs for puppies people did to the restauranteurs? and giving $5 specials on foie gras is mean spirited? lolol.
Don’t forget people, the bottom line is we are Americans and have freedom of choice. No dirty hippie in leather shoes and belt telling us not to harm animals, is going to tell me what i can and can’t eat! Go get a shower hippies, you smell like a dead animal!