$16 Foie Gras Jelly Donut, Priceless
On a recent vacation to the Pacific Northwest, Scott Gold, author of The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers, checked out the Portland food scene by tasting ono ceviche at Andina, grass-fed and finished strip steak at Urban Farmer, and spiced boar collar and fish sauce fried chicken wings at Pok Pok.
But it was on my last night of the trip, says Gold, mere hours away from boarding a red-eye flight back to New York, that I confronted one of the most outrageously ballsy menu items I’d ever seen in my life. At the diminutive, elegant Le Pigeon, listed nonchalantly among the other appetizers, was this:
Foie gras jelly donut, $16
Gold says, “It was, quite literally, a house made jelly donut topped with a generous lobe of seared foie gras, with yet another lobe of foie on the side. It was fried fat topped with seared fat, plain as can be. Just in case you don’t believe me, I have photographic evidence.”
To taste the $16 Foie Gras Jelly Donut head to
738 E Burnside St
Portland, OR 97232
(503) 546-8796