BUDAPEST (Reuters) - It isn't to everyone's taste, and animal rights activists wish the custom would vanish entirely, but anyone who ever fancied eating foie gras - fattened goose liver - would have ...

As the year winds down, St Martin's Day marks the final hurrah before the long, lean Advent fasting. Hungarian tradition dictates a hearty goose dinner to ward off hunger for the coming months. So, ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The price of foie gras in Hungary, one of the world's leading producers of the delicacy, has surged since an outbreak of bird flu forced farmers to cull more than 3 million fowl, ...

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BUDAPEST, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Hungary has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus at a goose farm, the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nebih) said on Wednesday. The ...