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My mom made me dinner the other night. We have some canned foie gras from when she was in France a while ago.

foie gras, arugula salad

baked sole, spinach and artichoke, risotto

Good stuff. My mom's a good cook. Still got some of that foie gras to finish off too...

isn't fois gras (can and fresh) illegal to bring back into the US? Bad, bad, bad!!

posted by reader on January 5, 2004 12:31 AM

It's perfectly legal to bring real fois gras (canned AND fresh)into the US. I have done it (and declared it) many times and the Agriculture agent in the airport confirmed that they are not worried about poultry. But you can't bring anything with pork, lamb or beef content. I had to surrender a jar of rillette one time because it contained pork.

posted by Raphael Che on January 6, 2004 01:00 PM