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pressed duck

noun

  1. a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device duck press so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.



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Its signature dish remains pressed duck, cooked in its own blood and specially carved by servers in the air instead of on a board.

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“We’ve gone from pressed duck served tableside to a glorified cheese sandwich,” he says — and from a menu with 32 dishes to a dozen.

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The stars of the show included a whole pressed duck, delivered atop a teak trolley, and a chocolate souffle graced with fresh vanilla bean ice cream.

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I have a particular, joyful memory of a pressed duck I ate at Daniel in Manhattan once, of the perfect mineral taste of the blood-enriched sauce that cloaked the bird’s flesh, so red above the starched white tablecloth.

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And then there’s the pressed duck.

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