Thursday, July 31, 2008

About Foie Gras - history

Egyptians had noticed that the geese stopping over in the marshes of the river Nile were endlessly eating figs to prepare themselves for their long trip back to the North.
This overeating caused their livers to become naturally fat. Egyptians developed a technique to reproduce this work of nature at the hands of men by force-feeding geese with figs. Hebrews who were the slaves of Egyptians at the time, copied their masters methods and within centuries, carried it round to the Latin and Greek world and also into central Europe where the Romans learned it. This is where the Foie Gras makes its real entrance to the history and books.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Les Trois Petits Cochons: the family




Jim cooking sausages
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Reba, our NY sales rep
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Alain, THE boss
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When 3 pigs meet Monelli


Les Trois Petits Cochons receive an Oscar (once again!)


3 pigs


3 pigs
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Les Trois Petits Cochons: the whole family


the whole family
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Les Trois Petits Cochons @ Beaujolais nouveau 07 (@FIAF)