This week’s Pittsburgh food news includes updates on Eat’n Park, Mrs. T’s Pierogies, Mancini’s Bakery, and Prantl’s Bakery, as well as a former Heinz Field feature, a vote on foie gras, and more.
Pittsburgh City Council
Local animal activists applauded Pittsburgh City Council for banning foie gras, a controversial delicacy produced by force-feeding ducks and geese until their livers become fatty and diseased. In what one Humane Action Pittsburgh press release describes as a “groundbreaking move toward animal welfare and ethical consumption,” the City Council passed, by a vote of 7-2, a bill to “ban the production and sale of foie gras within city limits.”…