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“Long Live Foie Gras” Menu This Week at Matyson

Posted by Foobooz on May 7th, 2012

This week Matyson will feature a foie gras tasting menu, in protest the upcoming foie gras ban in California. Matyson is offering a five-couse foie gras tasting menu for $55 that will include chef Ben Puchawitz’s ridiculously good foie gras creme brûlée that he made last week at Cook.

“Foie Gras”

 Foie Gras Mousse
Pumpernickel, fig jam, pastrami spice, pickled rhubarb

Duck & Foie Gras Ravioli
Cipollini onions, golden beets, foie gras sauce

Foie Gras Stuffed Morels
Scallop, fava beans, blueberries, tarragon puree

Veal Tenderloin Rossini
Seared foie gras, black truffle, savoy spinach, miso

Foie Gras Creme Brulee
Coffee, pistachio, shaved foie gras

Matyson [Official Site]

Matyson
37 South 19th St, Philadelphia, PA

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    • Jill

      This is sad. I do try to live and let live on the Fois Gras thing, but when a restaurant feels the need to rub it in your face that they delight in the worst kind of animal torture, I get disappointed. The ironic thing is that I always had Matyson as a go-to place when dining with my vegetarian friends, because they were always good about whipping up a fantastic veg entree.

    • Nadia

      I’m floored. At first I thought this was a joke. I can only echo what Jill said – this kind of revelry is uncalled for. I’m emailing Matyson right now to tell them that they’ve lost a customer.

    • http://n/a jackson

      I strongly agree.
      Natural foie gras from wild hunted geese just before migration is the best!
      Unfortunately many people are lazy and tend to think that the tasteless crap that comes from these force fed cruelly treated birds suits there needs.

    • rory

      lol. I don’t buy that you aren’t anti-foie already, previous commenters. Once again, the best part of the absurdity is the claim that foie is “the worst kind of animal torture” when, as Jackson notes, duck and geese naturally gorge themselves. Fight large industrial farms. Just within our food system, the following are far worse torture than foie production:

      -industrial pig farming
      -industrial chicken farming
      -industrial cow farming

      I could go on, but you get the idea. Instead of fighting a niche market that is debateably animal cruelty, why not focus on things that are *blatantly* cruel?

    • hawt dawgs

      Good point, Rory. Unless previous commenters are also making sure their chicken is completely free range and not GMO and cows 100% pasture fed and not living in their own poop, then the foie gras argument is pretty weak in comparison.

    • Jill

      Gavage is absolutely animal torture, and most restaurants serving fois gras are serving it from birds subjected to gavage, not from wild hunted geese. And the argument about making sure chicken is free-range and beef is grass fed (which I do, by the way) is not a good analogy. The analogy would be if there was a bill that would prevent the horrific factory farm methods you address, and a restaurant decided to emphasize lots of Perdue chicken in a marketing/protest ploy.

    • Dave

      The anti-Foie Gras set here are remarkably uninformed. I am not going to write a 5,000 word rejoinder with backup, but I detest people who pontificate about subjects they know less than nothing about. Pure political agitprop.
      I, for one, will not travel to california (with a small “c”), in order to protest yet another in a long string of radical leftist, counterproductive, big-brotherish, ill-informed, bigoted stupidity they are just notorious for.

    • rory

      Jill–and your source for the fact that gavage is animal torture? Because most science generally agrees that the type of overeating and stress potentially created by gavage is a typical part of waterfowl life (hence the fact that hunted geese can also produce foie gras). So where’s your proof? please avoid wikipedia links.

      you made a claim that gavage is “the worst type of animal torture.” That’s just wrong and I revel in enjoying an artisan product and thumbing my nose at underinformed do-gooderness in a world where information is easily accessible and there are tons of more important issues to get enraged by/boycott based on even if we simply stay focused on our food system.

    • PJ

      Delicious! Sign me up.

    • Dan

      get over it. One of my favorite periods was in 2007, during perhaps the height of the Iraq war, the demonstrators came out to protest the horrors of…foie gras.

    • http://FooBooz PPABootSquad

      They are Animals, for gods sake, They Don’t Have Rights! Where does it stop, squishing a bug but not a mouse? Let me eat what I want. Ah, here comes my horse steak.
      Anyway, the so-called force feeding is done ‘humanely’ [check out Anthony Bourdain in Upstate NY]. Keep up the good work Matyson and everyone Else that has the guts to be non-PC on the food front and Everywhere else. To each their own, and Shut up and stop bothering US who eat different than youse [meat, eggs, fish, stuff with a face]. Chicago had to repeal their foie gras ‘law’, and california will do the same. Now if I could only Still get kangaroo skin soccer shoes in CA everything would be fine. You ‘animal rights’ folks continue to amaze me.

    • 1234…fiff

      read “the foie gras wars” by mark caro, a good read on both sides of the debate

      http://www.amazon.com/The-Foie-Gras-Wars-000-Year-Old/dp/1416556680

    • PVP

      I’m emailing Matyson right now to tell them they gained a customer. Hope their reaction to anyone emailing to complain is to have that customer send a picture for them to hang on a Don’t Ever Let This Customer Eat Here Again Wall of Shame.

    • JetJill

      Whatever side of this debate one is on, it is simply appropriate that the restaurant and customer – not the State – gets to decide whether or not to sell it and eat it. I happen to love foie gras, and would eat this meal in a heartbeat. I feel the same way about smoking (though I do not smoke), trans-fat,and motorcycle helmets.

    • Sassy

      I love foie so much that i’m heading there now by myself so no one can interrupt me while I gavage myself

    • Paul

      One of my favorite things about Matyson is that they almost always have a foie dish on the menu!

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