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Both the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) date the term back to the 12th century. The former gives the original meaning as a "culinary preparation consisting of minced meat or fish surrounded by dough and baked in the oven"; [1] the OED's definition is "a pie or pastry usually filled with finely minced meat, fish, vegetables, etc." [2] The French ...
The liver of mammals, fowl, and fish is commonly eaten as food by humans (see offal). Pork , lamb , veal , beef , chicken, goose , and cod livers are widely available from butchers and supermarkets while stingray and burbot livers are common in some European countries.
The Minangkabau people in Indonesia prepare gulai banak 'beef brain curry' in a coconut-milk gravy. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In Cebu City , Philippines, tuslob buwa (fried pig brain) is a popular street food. In Cuban cuisine , "brain fritters" are fried breaded brains. [ 6 ]
Approximately 30,000 people work in the French foie gras industry, with 90% of them residing in the Périgord , Aquitaine in the southwest, and Alsace in the east. [36] The European Union recognizes the foie gras produced according to traditional farming methods ( label rouge ) in southwestern France with a protected geographical indication .
A variety of pâtés (containing liver) on a platter Animal heads, brains, trotters, and tripe on sale in an Istanbul meat market. Offal (/ ˈ ɒ f əl, ˈ ɔː f əl /), also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organs of a butchered animal.
Liver pate is a pâté and meat spread popular in Northern and Eastern Europe. Made from finely or coarsely ground pork liver and lard , [ 1 ] it is similar to certain types of French and Belgian pâtés.
Pate (instrument), a Samoan percussion instrument; Pate (surname), a surname; Pâté (film), a film by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo; Patē, the Māori name for the tree Schefflera digitata; Pate, the surface of the human head, especially a bald head
Regularly eating foie gras can harm the health of predisposed people. Patients with Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes and other amyloid-related diseases should not eat it. [48] In 2012, the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued Hudson Valley Foie Gras over its advertising as "the humane choice" for foie gras. Hudson Valley settled the ...