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Strasburg Goose

The Strasburg goose is an animal that has to submit, for the sake of the luxuries of mankind, to a very peculiar operation. It is tied down to a board, and put in front of a fire, which appears very cruel; but it does not hinder the animal from getting fat. It is fed with barley-meal, and it thus takes in much more starch than is necessary to maintain its heat, and the consequence is, the starch is converted into fat and deposited in greatest abundance in the liver. The goose is then killed, the liver is taken out, and these distended livers are the precious morceaux contained in the pate de foie gras (which see).