Foie gras, or fatty duck or geese liver, is a French delicacy that’s popular around the world. It’s often mistaken for pâté de foie gras, a smooth spread made from foie gras and white wine. However, ...

As winter and holidays approach, it’s time to indulge in fat and luxury without guilt--at the very least for our guests’ sake. Foie gras, a specially fattened duck or goose liver, is the soul of both, ...

While not sparing the lives of ducks and geese, the technique lets the birds eat and grow normally. By Ari Daniel Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in ...

Researchers wondered if there was a more ethical way to enjoy foie gras, so they created a process to replicate the dish without force-feeding ducks and geese beyond their normal diets. They treated ...

On January 7, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would decline to hear a challenge to the lower court’s 2017 ruling, effectively upholding the foie gras ban throughout the state of California.

A five-hour drive southwest of Madrid, I pull into a tiny town square filled with songbirds and an outsized Catholic church — where Eduardo Sousa and Diego Labourdette are waiting. They're an odd ...

On July 1, the boom finally drops: The country's first statewide ban on foie gras goes into effect in California, making it illegal to serve or sell. For more on this, check out our critic Besha ...

Animal cruelty concerns led the City Council to approve the ban, which takes effect in 2022. One chef’s reaction: “What’s next? No more veal?” By Jeffery C. Mays and Amelia Nierenberg Lutèce served it ...

“I never cooked with foie gras in Peru,” says Ricardo Zarate. His hands are deep in flour, the pale dust spreading across counter and chef — black T-shirt, black jeans, black apron — as he forms pâte ...

Amyloid, a term for a misfolded form of an otherwise normal protein, is most often associated with amyloid-beta, the waxy protein that builds up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. But ...