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Thinking Allowed: Foie gras & the politics of taste - Memories of Irish food

30/11/2016

Foie gras & the politics of taste - Memories of Irish food

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Foie gras and the politics of taste. Also, male Irish migrants recall the food back home.

Foie gras: Laurie Taylor explores the politics of taste. Also, working class Irish men who migrated to Britain recall the food back home.

Foie gras: The politics of taste. Laurie Taylor talks to Michaela DeSoucey, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University, about the controversies that surround this luxury product. What makes us see some foods as 'wrong' and worthy of prohibition? They're joined by the distinguished anthropologist, Henrietta Moore. Also, memories of Irish food. Angela Maye-Banbury, Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, talks about her research with working class Irish male migrants whose evocative recollections of the food back home illuminate their sense of the past.

Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

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