DOES A DUCK HAVE A SOUL

I was a chef for almost 20 years before embarking on my new career. In all those years spent sweating my butt off in kitchens, I never once prepared or served foie gras. I'm kind of glad I didn't to, the way it's farmed is pretty abhorrent and that's coming from someone who has personally dissected hundreds of animals in the past 20 years. I'm not anti eating animals, it's just that foie gras is something altogether different.

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It seems there is a bit of a ruckus happening in New York at the moment over all of this. Chefs, ex chefs (and I know a few that read this blog) and people who enjoy fine food will find this article interesting.

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George Weller was the first American journalist to enter the devastated city of Nagasaki after Japan surrendered. He wrote about what he saw.....

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Showing them to you, as the first American outsider to reach Nagasaki since the surrender, your propaganda-conscious official guide looks meaningfully in your face and wants to knew: "What do you think?"


What this question means is: do you intend saying that America did something inhuman in loosing this weapon against Japan? That is what we want you to write.


Several children, some burned and others unburned but with patches of hair falling out, are sitting with their mothers. Yesterday Japanese photographers took many pictures with them. About one in five is heavily bandaged, but none of showing signs of pain.


Some adults are in pain as they lie on mats. They moan softly. One woman caring for her husband, shows eyes dim with tears. It is a piteous scene and your official guide studies your face covertly to see if you are moved.



unfortunately, the powers to be censored his material, until now.

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2000 years ago somebody took a date tree seed and stored it at King Herods' palace on Mount Masada, then the seed was unearthed during archaeological excavations and given to a bunch of botanists who planted it. Yep the bloody thing grew, incredible as it may seem they have grown plant from a 2000 year old seed.

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