Horse: it's what's for dinner.

• Position: Food - Horse meat consumption - Brief article

While the uproar in Europe over burgers, sausages, and lasagnas containing traces of horse DNA continues, horse meat is actually a traditional cuisine in many parts of the world. In Central Asia, some people attribute the success of Ghengis Khan, the 13th-century Mongolian warrior, to eating horse meat, since his food supply always traveled with him. Valentino Bontempi, an Italian chef, ate horse three times a week as a child. He now has a restaurant in Moscow where he serves horse meat in salads, in tortellini, and on pizza, praising it as leaner and richer in...