Foie Gras Jelly Doughnut at Le Pigeon, Portland, Oregon
Scott Gold of The Faster Times reports on the foie gras jelly doughnut at Le Pigeon in Portland, Oregon:
It’s as though the menu had performed the Jedi mind-trick on me: "You will have the foie gras jelly donut." "I will have the foie gras jelly donut." When the server came to take our orders, I pointed at the menu and asked, simply, “Seriously?” ”Oh, yes,” he said. Oh well, I thought. I guess we’re going to do this.
As Gold says, it's a slice of foie gras atop a house-made doughnut, with another slice of foie gras on the side. "It was fried fat topped with seared fat, plain as can be." [via Sullivan via Rory]
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6 Comments:
what kind of jelly, i wonder?
gastronomeg at 4:35PM on 07/20/09
I'm all for food experimentation but please don't sully the delicious, humble doughnut by pairing it with the grossness that is foie gras! You've gone too far! In my very biased vegetarian opinion, of course :).
gidgejane at 4:46PM on 07/20/09
This looks even more delicious than their Foie Gras Profiteroles which I was lucky enough to have when I was out there last winter. If that's even possible! I'd have to wash dishes or peel potatoes to do it, but I would be a regular if I lived there. They also had a fresh pasta with parm, butter and black truffles. Le Pigeon rules.
simon at 5:22PM on 07/20/09
Believe me, both the foie gras jelly donut and the foie gras profiterole are amazing. I indulged myself and had both last week (the first as a starter and the latter as dessert). The contrast between silky and crisp, the richness of the foie gras and the bright tartness of the jam, the salty and the sweet...it's phenomenal. Le Pigeon is astounding -- smart, gorgeous food (kind of like Gabriel Rucker!).
fanghsing at 1:57AM on 07/21/09
Ugh. This dish jumps the shark IMO.
Kerosena at 10:46AM on 07/22/09
Holy god.
I don't eat fois gras (no reason other than it skeeves me, as does anything made with organs of any sort) but I think I'd make a fried-fat on fried-fat exception.
Whoa.
missbhavens at 4:43PM on 07/28/09