A brave citizen finds the courage to report a heinous crime:
A daily special at a Lincoln Square restaurant has triggered the first -- and only -- official complaint stemming from Chicago's controversial ban on foie gras.
A caller to the city's 311 non-emergency system complained that foie gras was being served over the weekend at Block 44, 4365 N. Lincoln. The restaurant is not refuting the claim.
Rick Spiros, the chef at Block 44, acknowledged that he served "about eight orders" of foie gras on Friday night even though he knew the liver delicacy is illegal in Chicago. It wasn't an act of defiance, so much as a desperate effort to avoid wasting expensive food, he said.
"I had a couple pieces left over, and I just got rid of it. I just did it. I'm a bad chef, I guess. People loved it. People bought it. One person complained? I'll take the slap on the wrist. I'm not in fourth grade. I had the decision to make, and I served it. Whatever the repercussions are, I'll deal with it," Spiros said.
Bad, bad chef.
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oh.............the humanity
Apparently this chef doesn't give a crap about animals. What they do to these animals to get this so called delicacy is inhumane and disgusting. This is all this chef can say? Maybe they should lock him in a cramped cage and he would have something more to say besides "I'm a bad chef, I'll take a slap on the wrist". Perhaps if Chicago gave him a nice hefty fine for breaking the law then he wouldn't think it was worth doing.
Laura, Did you know about the living conditions of the animals before the law and subsequent stories aired? Most people didn't. That probably includes this chef.
That dish is probably expensive to make. If he had the stuff before the law went into effect I can see where he would take the chance at breaking the law rather than take the hit to the pocket.