IN QUEST OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR FOIE GRAS / desperation sets in after just two days
by Larry Levine | Jul 3, 2012
By Larry Levine – Chickens go “cluck” and ducks go “quack”. Any two year old knows that. Or in the case of my brilliant grand daughter, any 20 month old. But what if you tried to substitute a chicken’s liver for a duck’s as... Read MoreGet Social!
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