Foie gras is believed to have originated with the ancient Egyptians, who observed that migratory geese and ducks stored fat in their livers; they began force-feeding them to procure the fatty liver as food. The practice of producing and eating foie gras seems to have continued with the ancient Romans and then Jews in the medieval period before finally taking off in France in the 1500s.
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