"Hence the "wars" of Caro's book title, which he's in a unique position to document, as it was his March 29, 2005, Tribune article that sparked this country's most famous fight over foie gras, the one that resulted in Chicago's ordinance (since repealed) prohibiting restaurants from selling the dish. If he bears any guilt over what his work wrought, Caro doesn't show it, although he doesn't particularly seem enthused about it, either. Instead, he uses that particular war -- which ended up accomplishing little save embarrassing Chicago -- as the jumping-off point for a tour of the world of foie gras, in which he visits with the farmers and chefs who produce and sell it as well as, most memorably, the activists who protest their doing so. After all that, Caro ends up coming down on the side of the people producing foie gras, not the ones pushing to have it outlawed. His readers are likely to do the same, largely because that's the side supported by nearly all the available evidence." - Shannon Jiménez