Do you know any place where you can buy paté or foie gras?!
Months later (for some reason), I started to think to myself. Where can I get more of this "butter"?
All I know is that they come in many different varieties (example, canned and fresh). I know they have it here in the US (particularly stores in Virginia), other than France. Is it in Costco? Bloom? E-bay?
Confusingly, I'd like to know if the two listed above are actually the same thing. If not, how are they different?
Answers:
Usually a gourmet food store. But some upscale supermarkets like Trader Joe's or Whole Foods usually have it. Sometimes even the "regular" supermarkets carry it, where they have all the expensive cheeses and sausages.
Fois Gras is just the goose liver. Pate can be made from all sorts of things usually includes chicken livers or duck livers. A good delicatessen should be able to supply these things. Zabars Deli in NYC has a huge selection of foods from all over the world. You can get Fois Gras from them or from Quebec too.
Go to your town's best grocery store or gourmet market
You can usually find it at Central Market, Whole Foods or similar upscale grocery stores.
Be aware that tree huggers, including myself, are somewhat against foie gras (goose liver) because the goose is abused by force-feeding it to make the goose become grossly fattened, and thereby making the liver enlarged and fattier that normal.
You can buy or make duck liver pate' or chicken liver pate (AKA: Chopped liver), in many standard grocery stores now. It's very good and I've tried them all, including foie gras, but it's also the second highest cholesterol-laden organ meat that you can eat, preceded only by beef brains.
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