'Foie Gras Wars': A real page-turner
Time to think about summer reading, and rifling through a pile of books I’ve been dipping into, I just came across "The Foie Gras Wars" by Chicago Tribune reporter Mark Caro.
I can’t believe I ever put the book down. Admittedly, the topic sounds like hard going, but this is so well-written and so balanced in its treatment that it is, improbably, a real page turner. It has everything: fascinating characters, devious deeds, wit, suspense, science.
Guaranteed, you’ll think and think hard before you take that next bite of foie.
--S. Irene Virbila
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most fowl raised in the US are kept in cages the size of a shoebox! Even the 'cage-free' kind!... At least the fois gras ducks and geese get to walk around a little!
Posted by: tracie chakraborty | July 07, 2009 at 06:00 PM
Maybe the book is impossible to put down. But, without having read it, I can't see how there could ever be a debate or a positive side to Fois gras. From what I have heard, it is pure torture. Oh, wait! We don't torture any more.
Posted by: Bob | July 06, 2009 at 03:57 PM