Comments on: Duck in a can

By: S Lloyd

S Lloyd — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:58:44 +0000

Was that seafood tower (last pic), the Le Gros Verrat 350.00 $?
Thanks

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:49:32 +0000

Jane,
The process of “gravage” which is the feeding of ducks or geese to fatten their liver is actually a very natural process. Those birds are able to swallow corn cobs whole with no difficulty and their throats are so flexible and stretchable that the funnel used to “force” feed them causes them no discomfort at all. The ducks and geese stuff themselves in preparation for long migrations; this is simply assisted a bit by the trained people who travel from farm to farm to do the gravage.
Please don’t call this cruel, not when we in the US are so guilty of using factory farms to completely deprive livestock of any semblance of a normal life.

By: Bambi

Bambi — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:57:23 +0000

Simon, I’d recommend a visit to Au Pied de Cochon for Duck in a Can. Maybe email the restaurant (link above) and ask if they sell it, or would sell you a special can. I doubt it, though. You CAN buy a canning machine, however, and make it yourself!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:24:42 +0000

Is it possible to buy “Duck in a can” ? Perhaps on line? thx!

By: jane

jane — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:53:22 +0000

I can only hope that you do not know how foie gras is produced. HOw can any himan being who knows eat it. how did you lose your comapssion for suffering of living creatures

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:53:48 +0000

‘I don’t eat pigs, or any four-legged animals.’

Good for you. ;)

By: rcianci

rcianci — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:38:43 +0000

The charming boiled pigs’ heads in the bucket picture accompanies the recipe for Beans and Meatball stew in the APDC cookbook. That’s the recipe where the second instruction reads “Using a saw, cut off the top of the piglets’ heads in order to remove the brains.” Beans, brains and meatballs too. Yum.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:19:01 +0000

Fun to read. I’m glad I have you for the total sensory experience . I could never get past the visual as you know!
Heart attack ready to happen … May I suggest you bring along your trusty AED ( automated external defibrillator)
YELS

By: y e l m

y e l m — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:17:07 +0000

All I can say is YUCK. And that even off the street you must be a woman of courage. AND, if you were an eater of the four footed, you probably would have tried one of the charming pig heads in the bucket. What culinary adventure have you not tried!