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Post by GitteK on Oct 21, 2007 8:07:13 GMT -5
For all us duck-lovers THIS seems to be a temple of worship ! I stumbled on it accidentally and read some very positive reviews. "Le Petit Canard" 19 Rue Henry Monnier 9th arr. (just north of St.Georges) Open 19:00-02:00 (they do not serve lunch, it seems) This is a photogallery, showing the resto and the food ! tinyurl.com/25ydn5travelchannel.igougo.com/planning/journalEntryDining.asp?JournalID=39401&EntryID=24808&n=Le+Petit+CanardBTW - if you google for "le petit canard" you may get some highly interesting (!) links to a WHOLE different sort of duck. Don't let yourselves be fooled by her innocent appearance !
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Post by annettecinca on Oct 21, 2007 11:02:55 GMT -5
Oh Gitte, my husband will love this place!
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Post by trechic on Oct 21, 2007 11:20:33 GMT -5
OMGosh, gitte! I L O V E duck - but now I find I am adding exploration of the 9th to my list! I have no real itinerary, really...just so much to see and do, and every time I come to this site, I find something new to add. There just is not enough time to fit it all in in ten short days. It will be interesting to see what it is I actually do get to cross off the list this first time around.
I wonder?!
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Post by geordy on Oct 21, 2007 11:23:05 GMT -5
Looks delicious Gitte, and right by your Pl. Gustav Toudouze!
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Post by holger on Oct 21, 2007 14:20:41 GMT -5
;D
All I can say is Yum! How I miss my foie gras and duck confit!
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Post by Shoesy on Oct 21, 2007 14:27:44 GMT -5
I bet they have very good magret de canard at that place. That's the kind of duck dish that I like.
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Post by GitteK on Oct 21, 2007 15:37:05 GMT -5
Shoesy, you can have all the magret your little tummy can hold:
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Post by susanb on Oct 21, 2007 20:33:38 GMT -5
Gitte The pictures on the restaurants web page are really terrifying! It didn't take long for me to close it out. How do people eat that? I am not food adventurous. One time in Italy the man sharing a table with us sucked the brains out of a chickens head (and it was really cute). I almost fell off my chair and I STILL think about it. I never understand the WHY of it. susan
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Post by ladyjicky on Oct 21, 2007 21:10:00 GMT -5
Now that looks like a great duck place!
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Post by Shoesy on Oct 21, 2007 23:48:56 GMT -5
Gitte - Kindly fill us in as to how you found that mischievous little pink ducky.
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Post by GitteK on Oct 21, 2007 23:58:21 GMT -5
susanb - terrifying ?? Adventurous ?? No comprendo............ why ?? You do eat birds (ducks, goose, chicken, turkeys, pheasants, grouse, quail, pidgeons, etc. ) in America too, I take it ?? I can assure you, only barbarious Italian brutes would do such a disgusting thing you are talking about. France is a civilized country, not so Italy. shoesy-love, all I will say is that we are definitely in the female accessories department.....
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Post by susanb on Oct 23, 2007 16:11:10 GMT -5
Gitte- The most common bird food that we eat is chicken, and turkey. Some people eat pheasant and duck, its not very common and then its usually the hunters that kill them. S Add' If I went into 5 different grocery stores here, I honestly don't think any of them would have any of the birds you are talking about except of course, the chicken and turkey. Duck and goose can be ordered around Christmas and New Year, but they are not typical foods that we eat. I may have tried a bite of duck and or goose.Our main meat products are beef, chicken, pork, and turkey. Oh, lamb is becoming more common. S
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Post by Jody on Oct 23, 2007 17:06:46 GMT -5
I do think that the foods we eat may be part cultural and partly the area of the country we come from. Lamb was and is very common in the northeast...we had lamb at least once a week when I was growing up in the dark ages. My family was English-Irish. It was hard to find when we moved south. My BIL used to bring me legs of lamb and chops when they came to visit. I now have no trouble buying any cut of lamb I want here in FL. We had fresh veal liver the other night, The Publix had veal chops,roasts, breast, liver and osso bucco. The only problem was the price! 2 medium size bony pieces of veal shank were $9.00!!!
My 70 year old husband remembers having duck at his boarding school every Sunday...he used to hide it under his acorn squash shell. Now he would eat it every night in Paris. My grocery sells quail, duck and goose as regular items in the freezer cases. For pheasant and woodcock I have to depend on the hunter in the family!
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Post by geordy on Oct 23, 2007 21:53:37 GMT -5
I agree with the foods we eat being cultural, and certainly regional, in the USA. Sunday dinner, in central New Jersey, was usually roast beef, alternately with roast chicken. An occasional pork roast or leg of lamb thrown in. Daily dinners were chops(lamb or pork), chicken breasts, meatloaf, copped steak, hamburgers, fish on Fridays. Father died and we had more casseroles(he wouldn't tolerate, afterwards they came in handy economically!! But since college I've enjoyed exploring new foods!!
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Post by Shoesy on Oct 23, 2007 22:51:02 GMT -5
I've actually had ostrich a few times and really loved it. It kinda tasted like steak.....and very juicy at that. Of course at first I had been very hesitant about eating a bird that has such pretty thick eyelashes.
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Post by susanb on Oct 23, 2007 23:22:32 GMT -5
As far as the other birds are concerned i.e. quail, grouse, pheasants, pigeon. goose, they aren't as plentiful here and then we don't have the forests or the hunting grounds and clubs that you have. If people have land here, just not anyone can hunt it. Its private property and most likely the hunter that owns it isn't going to share. The things we eat in the U.S. are much different than other countries Fridays was fish, salmon patties or macaroni and cheese!! And then getting into nationality or religion is a complete different thing. We do have bland palates here but they are changing. s
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Post by GitteK on Oct 23, 2007 23:45:14 GMT -5
That's very interesting. Millions of ducks (and geese) are raised in Europe as tame animals - they are bigger than the wild ducks/geese that you have to hunt for. There are all sorts of different tame races, the most common ducks being "Cherry Vale" (a British type, I think) and "Berberi" (a French duck). A good frozen duck of about 3,500 grams would cost about 130 DDK = 25 USD - more if it is freshly slaughtered. They are everywhere on the Parisian markets, but quite small ones "canettes" (ducklings). Game birds (pheasants, grouse, quail, pidgeons, wild ducks) have been quite expensive here, but is becoming more common, because of imports from e.g. Poland. A few farmers in DK have tried raising ostriches, but it has never become a very big succes. Personally I find the meat to have a "stale" taste. In DK about 90% of the population eats duck for Christmas evening. The rest eats goose or roast pork (with the cracklings on, which kids and childish persons FIGHT over !). Many have both pork and bird, so that there is something for everyone. This is the Danish Christmas dish par excellence. Duck, boiled potatoes, caramelized potatoes, pickled sweet redcabbage, pickled cucumbers and that divine thick "brown sauce" made from the pandrippings:
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Post by Jody on Oct 24, 2007 6:26:37 GMT -5
I was just reading a good review for another duck restaurant...and foie gras! It is not fancy, paper napkins and toast your own bread but it is supposed to be excellent food and good value to boot. www.domainedelintillac-paris.com/La%20carte.htm
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Post by Happygoin on Oct 24, 2007 7:14:16 GMT -5
Domaine de Lintillac has been on my list of Must-Do restaurants for a couple of years now. I'd love to hear how it was if anyone has eaten there.
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Post by Jody on Oct 24, 2007 7:36:16 GMT -5
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