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The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight | By Mark Caro » Adventures http://www.markcaro.com In his relentless yet good-humored pursuit of clarity, Caro takes us to the streets where activists use bullhorns, spray paint, Superglue and/or lawsuits as their weapons; the government chambers where politicians weigh the ducks' interests against their own; the restaurants and outlaw dining clubs where haute cuisine preparations coexist with Foie-lipops; and the U.S. and French farms whose operators maintain that they are honoring tradition, not abusing animals. Can foie gras survive after 5,000 years? Are we on the verge of a more enlightened era of eating? Can both answers be yes? Our appetites hang in the balance. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:54:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Awards catch-up http://www.markcaro.com/2009/12/10/awards-catch-up/ http://www.markcaro.com/2009/12/10/awards-catch-up/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:33:27 +0000 Mark Caro http://www.markcaro.com/?p=142 Should’ve mentioned this earlier, but The Foie Gras Wars won the 2009 Great Lakes Book Award for general non-fiction. The ceremony was held in Cleveland on Oct. 2, just minutes after I received a text that Chicago was the first city eliminated among those vying for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

Well, heck, at least Chicago represented in Cleveland. Aside from TFGW’s glorious triumph, Columbia College prof Joe Meno won the fiction prize for his novel The Great Perhaps, and Becky Anderson accepted the Voice of the Heartland award for her Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville.

Oh, and I grabbed a late dinner the night before at the bar at Michael Symon’s Lola and wound up sitting next to Jeff Carlisi. Name ring a bell?

He was the original guitarist for 38 Special, and, yes, he co-wrote “Hold On Loosely.”

]]> http://www.markcaro.com/2009/12/10/awards-catch-up/feed/ 0 ‘Is that your final answer?’ http://www.markcaro.com/2009/08/12/is-that-your-final-answer/ http://www.markcaro.com/2009/08/12/is-that-your-final-answer/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:12:39 +0000 Mark Caro http://www.markcaro.com/?p=134 The Foie Gras Wars made its national media debut last night on, yes, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The $8,000 question for the pumped-up contestant was

“The Foie Gras Wars is a 2009 book that features what type of animal on its cover? A. Sheep. B. Dog. C. Duck. D. Cow.”

The guy needed a lifeline, so he chose the “Ask Expert” option. This night’s expert was none other than Wolf Blitzer. He told the guy he didn’t know the book (not yet anyway–one book on its way), but he knew foie gras comes from a duck, so that was his guess, though he didn’t want the contestant to risk $8,000 on his answer.

The contestant trusted Wolf anyway and got his $8,000.

OK, now how to get this book on American Idol?

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