英语词汇foie gras的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

foie gras; stuffed as a goose; fed up. Foie gras literally means “fat liver” in French. Despite its unappetizing name, it has been considered a royal dish from earliest times, the most desirable and expensive of all the patés. The making of foie gras is noth- ing to be talked about while eating it. Traditionally, a goose was tied down firmly so that it could move only its neck, and six times a day “crammers” used their middle fingers to push into the throats of these geese a thick paste made of buckwheat flour, chestnut flour, and stewed maize. Today the process is hardly more humane. When about six months old, those birds fated for foie gras are crammed into wooden cages along with plentiful food and water. There they would eventually eat themselves to death by suffocation if their keepers did not slaughter them and remove their swollen livers after about six weeks. At that time they’re so fat they can barely move, having gorged themselves on over 70 pounds of food. It is said that the term fed up derives from this cruel practice, though there is no hard evidence of the derivation. Stuffed as a goose might more likely derive from the sight of a stuffed goose on a Christ- mas dinner table. English clergyman and wit Sydney Smith (1771–1845), among others, has been credited with the famous bon mot “My idea of heaven is eating paté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.”

词汇	foie gras
词源	foie gras; stuffed as a goose; fed up. Foie gras literally means “fat liver” in French. Despite its unappetizing name, it has been considered a royal dish from earliest times, the most desirable and expensive of all the patés. The making of foie gras is noth- ing to be talked about while eating it. Traditionally, a goose was tied down firmly so that it could move only its neck, and six times a day “crammers” used their middle fingers to push into the throats of these geese a thick paste made of buckwheat flour, chestnut flour, and stewed maize. Today the process is hardly more humane. When about six months old, those birds fated for foie gras are crammed into wooden cages along with plentiful food and water. There they would eventually eat themselves to death by suffocation if their keepers did not slaughter them and remove their swollen livers after about six weeks. At that time they’re so fat they can barely move, having gorged themselves on over 70 pounds of food. It is said that the term fed up derives from this cruel practice, though there is no hard evidence of the derivation. Stuffed as a goose might more likely derive from the sight of a stuffed goose on a Christ- mas dinner table. English clergyman and wit Sydney Smith (1771–1845), among others, has been credited with the famous bon mot “My idea of heaven is eating paté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.”
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