Bob Spitz is an award-winning journalist and author, whose best-selling biography, The Beatles: The Biography is considered the definitive work on the subject. His most recent book, The Saucier's Apprentice, will be published in paperback in May. He is currently working on a biography of Julia Child.

Is foie gras a delicacy or the product of torture? Or both? Journalist Mark Caro chronicles the bizarre foie gras wars that have pitted chefs against chefs and animal-rights activists against waitresses.