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Pig Heaven

September 28, 2006 at 10:50 AM | 0 Comments

Consider, if you will, foie gras. Banned in Chicago, lauded pretty much everywhere else, it's in the pantheon of rich man's food right alongside caviar and Tyrannosaur eggs. So when you get the chance to sample it for less than three bucks at a meal, you jump at the chance.

It was woth every cent. Montréal's Au Pied de Cochon serves an appetizer called the "foie gras cromesquis" (it's in the foie gras section of their menu, no less, near the foie gras burger and the foie gras poutine). Brought to the table, it looks like a miniature, cubed croquette. Toss it into your mouth, and it literally bursts with warm essence of foie gras on the inside. If you only allowed a single bite of any given dish at a restaurant, it would clearly be the one you'd want to have. The problem, of course, is limiting the experience to just one.