Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food

An inside look at the complex and controversial debates surrounding foie gras

In the past decade, the French delicacy foie gras-the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube-has been at the center of contentious battles. In Contested Tastes, Michaela DeSoucey takes us to farms, restaurants, protests, and political