Dive Brief:

• Famed Manhattan restaurants such as Per Se and the Gramercy Tavern are shipping their food scraps to a farm in the Amish region of Pennsylvania where a special breed of chickens feast on the fine-food waste.
• The chickens, which presumably will taste wonderful because of their high-end, foodie-style diet, will be given to those same restaurants this week.
• The experiment is being coordinated by the D'Artagnan company, which markets high-end poultry and foie gras.

Dive Insight:

We like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and charming dinner companions. So we're rather surprised that no one has offered to take us out to feast on one of these chickens. Certainly we'd accept the offer—if for no other reason than to find out just how good a chicken can taste. Our guess is that they will be superb. Anyone who has eaten a chicken raised on an traditional farm—fed on table scraps and grass—would agree that such chickens taste better than any others. So if you increase the quality of the food scraps, it only makes sense that you would increase the quality of the chicken.

So do send us that invitation.