Your faithful foie gras scribe is headed to Paris next week for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, where The Foie Gras Wars is being named Best Book for Food Professionals (U.S./pdf).

It’s also in the running, along with entries from 22 other countries, for the worldwide prize, to be announced at the Feb. 11 ceremony.

The first-ever Paris Cookbook Fair runs the next four days, and most of the major French—and other European—publishers are supposed to be represented. It’s an ambitious event.

TFGW hasn’t been released outside the U.S., so, yes, the translation rights are available. Anyone have any ins with French or Spanish publishers?