Cabbage Soup with Dried Seafood

A soup hijacked by diet culture

In the “Jules and Em” episode of the second season of the Netflix show Emily in Paris, Emily Cooper, an American marketer in Paris and the protagonist, is tasked with a campaign to promote French leeks in the American market. At a meeting between her team and the French clients, Emily becomes discouraged when the tagline she has come up with (“Le Leek, …