SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supreme Court Upholds California Foie Gras Ban Sorry, fans of the deliciously fatty foie gras, but the U.S Supreme Court upheld the California ban on foie gras in a case that’s been bouncing through the courts for more than ten years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California's Foie Gras Ban May Be Back On, Pending An Appeal Following a brief, two-and-a-half-year period in which it was illegal to produce or sell foie gras in California, following the implementation of a law that dated back to 2004 in the California banning
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Alert: Attorney General Kamala Harris Is Appealing Federal Judge's Decision That Overturned The Ban Though food people got very excited when California's two-and-a-half-year-old ban on foie gras got struck down in early January, there's a chance the ban could get reinstated albeit a small one. Attorney General
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Psycho Donuts Giving Away Psychotic Foie Gras-Filled Donuts Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi draws our attention to something taboo. Something daring. Something involving a pipette. (No one speaks of pipettes anymore, do they?) You see, foie gras--the sale of which is now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Goes Underground At Presidio Social Club It seems that the Presidio Trust weren't as jubilant as some with Presidio Social Club's controversial decision to keep foie gras on the menu after the July 1st ban went into effect. Since
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PETA Releases Statement Regarding Federal Ruling On Delicious, Succulent Foie Gras Charcuterie-haters PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a statement today regarding the federal ruling on California's ornamental foie-gras ban. In a written statement, PETA peta'd: "The greedy producers and gluttonous
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Official Bête Wants France To Boycott Calif. Wines Because we aren't the only people silly enough to boycott other regions, an official in the land of baguettes poking through wicker bike baskets has urged his country to boycott California wines in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold, The Foie Slider at Presidio Social Club We'd let the foie-gras brouhaha die if we didn't see images like this. But we do. And we did. So we won't. You see, the foie slider at Presidio Social Club, which we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Social Club Exempt From Foie Gras Ban Like a scared duck fighting to get that steel tube away from its beak, the effort to eschew the foie gras ban just won't die. This week's news comes from Presidio Social Club,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Humphry Slocombe's Brilliant, Harrowing Response To Foie Gras Activists Oh, this is rich. Ever since foie gras was banned (or "banned") in the state of California on July 1, a smattering of animal rights activists, it seems, have since harassed Mission District
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink End Of Foie Gras Dining: 5 Picks For Maximum Ducky Succulence Well, well. Here we are. At last. As we already mentioned today, California's foie gras ban won't really stick when it goes into effect on Monday, July 1st. But you'd be a down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Ban Still Happening, Sort Of While the food press has turned the benign foie gras ban into the gastronomic Brown v. Board of Education of our lifetime, you won't likely see the fattened liver off too many menus
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anti-Foie Gras Activists Revealed Location Of Last Night's 'Secret' Dinner Animal rights activists protested a very special dinner Thursday night in San Francisco, one that featured foie gras, the succulent and soon-to-be-banned duck's liver of note. Activists with the Animal Protection and Rescue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: The End Of Foie Gras Come July 1st, foie ban goes into effect. Does this mean that, at least in the state of California, you won't ever again be able to sink your teeth into the cruel yet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Violent Anti-Foie Gras Rhetoric Gives Chefs Goosebumps Chefs and restauranteurs — the sort of people who tend to have more knives and sharp objects on hand than most — are starting to fear the increasingly violent rhetoric that has fattened up as
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chef Packing Heat In War On Foie Gras This war on foie gras is getting a little out of hand: Fierce goose liver supporter and Lafitte chef Russel Jackson is reportedly coming to work armed and wearing a kevlar vest. People
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fight For Fat Liver: Foie Gras Dinner Benefit For Humane And Ethical Farming Standards We've got a small rain-on-your-wedding-day quandary for you: Are you conflicted about humane and ethical farming standards yet love the taste of soon-to-be-banned foie gras? We sure are. Which is why we love
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Read Wolfgang Puck's Letter To California Restaurants Serving Foie Gras Although his gastronomic reputation has, let's fact it, been marred due to his frozen food and canned soup lines, Spago founder and chef Wolfgang Puck still has some pull. So, he penned an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animals Rights Group Wants To Give Foie Gras-Hungry Anthony Bourdain Liver Exam Looking to draw attention to (cruel yet succulent) foie gras production and consumption, which will (technically) be banned in California come 2012, animal rights group Animal Legal Defense Fund stirred up a bit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gaggle of Foie Gras Industry Insiders Gather to Discuss California's Liver Failure Chris Cosentino's Incanto in Noe Valley played host to something resembling a foie gras summit meeting on Tuesday. As EaterSF reports, a "who's who" of San Francisco chefs, representatives from local foie gras
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lafitte Hosts Pro-Foie Gras Dinner Next Week Oh, it's on, folks. Taking a stand against the pending 2012 ban on foie gras, Chef Russell Jackson will host a FU Foie Gras Dinner at Lafitte on Sunday, October 16. See, California
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras To Go Underground In CA? When the state's foie gras ban goes into effect in July of 2012, California restaurants will have to pull the luxurious (yet allegedly cruel) item from their menus. Although producers claim it doesn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Votes to Ban Foie Gras Pro-life zealots on the Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday night to pass a resolution supporting the city's position against the serving the deliciousness known as foie gras. The fattened liver dish, for those
SF News Plumpjack Bans Foie Gras Just after Ross Mirkarimi's pro-life hummus breath suggested a citywide ban on foie gras - you know, in addition to the other one set to go in 2012 -- Gavin Newsom also kowtowed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ban Foie Gras in SF? Not learning the lesson Chicago had to after it attempted to / failed at banning (delicious) foie gras, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi told SFGate about a new legislative idea dimly blinking in his noggin. Ahem:
