Without giving away too many details, his speech focuses on a Spanish farm that makes foie gras an entirely unique way - by letting their geese live naturally on the farm and never force-feeding them. They’re famous not because it’s a new technique but because they were named the best foie gras in the world last year, so it’s no bs.
Among other things, Barber hits on how they ensure their foie gras has the look and taste they want - simply adding plants of those colors and flavors to the farm, which the geese then happily eat.
While it hardly seems time-efficient or possible to bring to other farms in a large-scale way, it’s an interesting concept. And the speech is really funny. Watch the whole thing, you’ll hear what the Jews in Egypt and the Pharaoh have to do with foie gras. Thanks to Emily for shooting my way.
Dan, I'm not sure to which client I'm going to bill the 20 minutes I just spent watching the Dan Barber foie gras speech, but I don't care... fascinating, enlightening, funny.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if the Blue Hill outlook is economically practical, but I'm intrigued by their philosophy (I have yet to taste their food).
Did you watch Alice Waters on 60 Minutes a week ago? Her approach seems similar. While quite engaging, she comes across as idealistically self-righteous/ideological...preaching social change through food even if her prescriptions are impossible to realize.