"Sheldon" > wrote in message
ups.com...
>
> Kswck wrote:
>> "Sheldon" > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >> Anyone know where I can buy some duck or goose liver?
>> >>
>> >> Not Foie Gras, just regular duck liver. Can get chicken liver
>> >> anywhere
>> >> but everywhere I ask for duck liver, they don't have it.
>> >>
>> >> I'm in So. Cal.
>> >
>> > In So. Cal. you will probably need to find a source for frozen. On the
>> > east end of Lung Guyland, NY most every stupidmarket sells fresh duck
>> > liver... and many area restuarants serve it in various ways, so why
>> > stink up your house. I love liver, duck, chicken, calves, but I only
>> > eat it out. Hint: liver should only be carefully broiled/grilled (do
>> > not over cook)... any other cooking method ruins it, including saute.
>> > Of course we're speaking ordinary duck liver, not force fed style (a
>> > whole nother story).
>> >
>> > Perhaps this will help (a neighbor not an hour from my door), it
>> > mentions a CA purveyer:
>> > http://www.hudsonvalleyfoiegras.com/nytimes.html
>> >
>> > They have a store on line (pricey) but again, not plain old duck liver.
>> > I'll stick to the fresh Lung Guyland fare I can get most anywhere on
>> > the east end for the same price as stupidmarket chicken livers, fresh
>> > duck eggs too, same price as chicken eggs by weight. Plenty of turkey
>> > farms near Riverhead, NY... they sell fresh livers and eggs too...
>> > Miklowski's on Rte 25A is where I used to buy my holiday bird. Best
>> > grilled liver with bacon and smothered in onions is served at The
>> > Harborside, Patchogue, NY... usta go for lunch; salad, soup, liver,
>> > fries, and dessert cost $12.
>> >
>> > I really miss Lung Guyland food... all these upstate hillybillys eat is
>> > fast food and shit.
>> >
>> > Sheldon
>> >
>>
>> Sheldon: Try Oscars SMokehouse in Warrensburg. It'sa bit of a drive for
>> you,
>> but they have quality stuff.
>
> Warrensburg is nearly as far north of me as NYC is south. I looked at
> their web site and they don't sell anything I can't buy at the local
> stupidmarkets, just smoked provisions... I'm sure there's is good but
> that's snacking food, not the kind of foods one should live on. In
> fact there are many locals nearby that do their own smoked meats and
> they are pretty good. But what I'm missing is good restaurant food,
> preferably ethnic. I've already tried like ten different Chinese
> restaurants that came highly recommended, all served crap, had no
> relationship whatsoever to any Chinese food I have had even in the
> neighborhood take outs downstate. Soon as I see the boiled yellow
> rice with green peas they call fried I know it's more Puerto Rican than
> Chinese... and wtf is boneless spare ribs, disgusting garbage I'd not
> feed to a starving cat. And there are no seafood restaurants worth
> their salt... if I want Mrs. Pauls I don't need to eat out.
>
> It's lucky for me I know how to cook, but sometimes I want to be
> serviced... and I'm willing to pay but not for lousy service and
> disgusting food. In fact the only alcoholic drinks the bartenders
> around here know how to prepare is popping the cap on a beer. The last
> time I went out to eat I ordered a bloody mary, got a glass jam packed
> with shaved ice with some pinkish red supposedly diluted tomato juice,
> and so thick with horseradish couldn't get through the straw, no celery
> stick and no vodka, least I couldn't detect any. I sent it back and
> ordered a bottled bud, no glass. By the time I finished the second bud
> the food still hadn''t arrived, I payed my bar tab and left.
>

Sounds like you need this:

http://www.bensdeli.net/

There are just some things you can't get away from the downstate NYC area,
good pizza, chinese food, LI Duckling, etc.