Foie fight.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Briefly Noted - Mark Caro on foie gras production - Brief article

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Mark Caro, author of The Foie Gras Wars(Simon & Schuster), inadvertently kicked off a national debate about the much-derided delicacy with a 2006 story for the Chicago Tribune about an inter-chef squabble.

The famously temperamental chef Charlie Trotter had stopped serving the fatty duck livers, citing ethical qualms about the ducks" treatment. A rival chef called him a "hypocrite." Trotter threatened to eat his fellow culinarian's liver.

Caro's initial story was delayed because Tribune editors didn't like the parallels between feeding the comatose Terri Schiavo through a tube and force-feeding...