Very foolish professor.

Smug people like to tout their own "englightened" ways with such statements. Too bad the professor didn't research the outrageous cruelty that is involved in producing dog meat in Korea. If you really want to think and speak intelligently on this issue, see www.admh.org/data/fifa.htm
Yes, dog meat is eaten in Korea, and there is horrific suffering involved.

Llinda, thank you, now I know the difference between Cognac and Armagnac, and other brands of brandy! Now I can brag at the numerous tables :))

mingtsainy - don't toss the foie!!
Open it - smell it - taste it - and if it seems fine it will be! The sell-by date is there to protect the manufacturer but usually the product goes way beyond that date.

Or at least give it to the cat!

Linda - this article is directly related to the thread you started last week about Chicago:

http://tinyurl.com/myeew

Defying Law, a Foie Gras Feast in Chicago
By MONICA DAVEY
In one of the more unlikely demonstrations of civil disobedience, a handful of restaurants featured foie gras on their menus to protest its prohibition by the city. (NYT 8-23-06)

PalQ, I am with you. No animal should have to suffer as those geese do to sate the jaded palates of humans who eat too much anyway. How anyone can choke it down is a complete mystery to me.

Mingtsainy, it is not difficult to produce an acceptable pate of chicken livers from birds that were not force fed. The old versions of Joy of Cooking have good recipes, also Julia Child and old New York Times cookbook. Your guests would probably enjoy your own efforts better than canned foie gras anyway.

But still don't throw out the Foie Gras - give it at least to a cat as cats have no conscience! (IMO)

I guess the secret is that I don't choke it down, I savour foie gras. And though I quite like chicken liver pate, anyone who thinks it's in the same league has never eaten foie gras.

All the more for the rest of us.

Interesting slant to Chicago banning of Foie Gras - several chefs still serve it and not in violation of the law, which says that Foie Gras cannot be sold - but can be served - now that's a bargain - free Foie Gras!