Outlaw's Dinner
Here's a wonderful followup to the foie gras pizza story...
To recap, the city of Chicago has banned the sale of foie gras in restaraunts, and in response, restaurateurs(*) are slapping down "free" foie gras garnishes all over their dishes as protest.
Well, I just read about someone who took it a step further:
Chef Robert Gadsby of Chicago's 676 Restaurant is offering a seven course "Outlaw's Dinner". Here's a description from a food blog I check now and then:
...Foie Gras wrapped in proscuitto and doused with hot chocolate followed by a host of other banned foods which have fallen foul of the law in various places ranging from absinthe, to wild mushrooms and unpasteurised cheeses. He even incorporated cooking methods such as sous vide which are banned in certain states by the food police.
Brilliant!
For more on this, go to Kitsch'n'Zinc.
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( * By the way: how much longer is the "correct" spelling, "restaurateur" going to stick around in the face of everyone's natural inclination to spell it "restauranteur"?)