Foie Gras and Gastronomical Heritage
“Foie gras belongs to the protected cultural and gastronomical heritage of France”, according to French law (French rural code L654-27-1). Hmm. Go read Michaela DeSoucey’s article on gastronationalism in the prestigious American Sociological Review, an article that uses all the technical tools of sociology to get to the politics underlying this preemptive claim. Here’s her [...]


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