Waiter, there's a horse in my soup.

• Position: Food Processing - Brief article

Horse meat as time-honored European cuisine, its detection when mixed into meatballs and other food, and the angst over consumption of chevaline in the U.S. is food for a thoughtful installment of the "New-scripts" column in Chemical & Engineering News.

Alexander H. Tullo, senior editor, uses the story to look behind the headlines reporting the discovery of horse meat in meatballs and other beef burger products in Europe. Tullo, of Italian heritage, recalls consuming horse meat as a child in New York, as his father carried on a family tradition. Horse long has been on menus in continental Europe, sold from...