Archive for foie gras
Pfersigberg [Wolfberger]
Posted in Wines with tags Alsace wine, demi-sec, foie gras, Gewurztraminer, grand cru, peach tree, Pfersigberg, white wine, Wolfberger on April 20, 2026 by xi'an
[not so] hostile takeover on my Nature issue
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, University life with tags AF beer, AI scare, AlphaFold, alternative meat, black holes, book review, bread, buckwheat, Caspian sea, CHANCE, chili pepper, cultivated meat, curry, English beer, flight mode, foie gras, fruit fly, group picture, Internet, internet security, Montréal, Nature, Nobel Prize, origin of bread, Parasite, rye bread, Singapore, solar system, wasps on November 29, 2024 by xi'an
a mere £1,500 dinner
Posted in Travel, Wines with tags blonde, Bocuse d'Or, buckwheat, caviar, dashi, Edinburgh, foie gras, fundraising, Jerusalem artichoke, Kenilworth, London, miso, scallops, The Cross, truffles, UK, vin d'Arbois, vin jaune on February 5, 2024 by xi'an
As a one-time patron of the X on Kenilworth, I received an invitation to join the fundraising Bocuse d’Or UK gala diner, at a mere £1,500 each (with the helpful addition that 10 tickets would cost £10,500!]. Despite being partial to foie gras, buckwheat, scallops, Jerusalem artichokes, and vin jaune, methinks I will pass the offer since the wine list is not included…
Bocuse d’Or UK Fundraising Gala Menu
Canapés
Smoked duck doughnut, celeriac, Perigord [sic] black truffle
Cured trout aged in beeswax, timut pepper, pickled Potimarron, dashi jelly
Mushroom tuile, wild mushroom parfait, Douglas pine (vegan)
Seaweed tartelette, oyster and Coco bean sphere, Petrossian caviar
Cracker with Duperier [sic] foie gras, Gewürztraminer jelly, sancho pepper
Marco Zampese, Hélène Darroze at The ConnaughtShetland mussel bavaroise scented with turmeric
Lemon gel with fresh coriander and buckwheat grains
Daniel Stucki, The Lecture Room & Library at sketchHand-dived scallop, citrus beurre blanc and Petrossian caviar
Jean-Philippe Blondet, Alain Ducasse at The DorchesterMegrim sole filled with truffle flavoured mousse baked in puff pastry
Vin jaune and langoustine sauce
Alain Roux, The Waterside InnGrass fed, 60-day dry aged beef
Jerusalem artichoke, crones, black garlic
Matt Abé, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay‘Core apple’
Clare Smyth, CORE by Clare Smyth“Anvil”
Caramel mousse with our miso, apple and spruce
Simon Rogan, L’Enclume“Like a kid in a sweet shop”
Edward Cooke, The Fat Duck
foie gras fois trois
Posted in Statistics, Wines with tags champagne, foie gras, goose liver, Le Monde, significance test, survey sampling, truffles on December 31, 2014 by xi'anAs New Year’s Eve celebrations are getting quite near, newspapers once again focus on related issues, from the shortage of truffles, to the size of champagne bubbles, to the prohibition of foie gras. Today, I noticed an headline in Le Monde about a “huge increase in French people against force-fed geese and ducks: 3% more than last year are opposed to this practice”. Now, looking at the figures, it is based on a survey of 1,032 adults, out of which 47% were against. From a purely statistical perspective, this is not highly significant since
is compatible with the null hypothesis N(0,1) distribution.
