"Kswck" > wrote in message
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> "Sheldon" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
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>> 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.
>


Corning: Aniello's Pizza. Outstanding - as good as anything in NYC. That's
rare out this way. Also, Guida's, in the Rochester area.
http://www.guidaspizzeria.com/