José Andrés Is Spectacularly Wrong About D.C.’s Proposed Foie Gras Ban

Summary

For most of this year, a proposed ballot initiative to ban foie gras in Washington, D.C., drew just a whisper of public opposition—from the usual crowd. First up was Bart Hutchins, the chef and owner of Butterworth’s, the Capitol Hill restaurant that has been MAGA diners’ safe space since Donald Trump returned to the White House. Banning foie gras, he wrote in the opinion pages of The Washington Post, would result in “censuring a generation of young cooks and ending the relationship they have with an extraordinary ingredient.” He is organizing a foie gras tasting menu, ostensibly to fund…

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