Hungry? You Could Eat a Horse

In our judge-not world of moral relativism, gastronomy may be the last realm with strong and numerous taboos. Would you eat a dog? Or a cat? How about “Secretariat?” In some parts of Italy horse meat – or carni equine, which sounds better to our era, anyway – is becoming popular. One restaurant offers a mane course of “Horse Three Ways” (“French tartare, a slice of roasted horse and pesto di cavallo.”). Fans say it tasy with low fat and nothing anyone should have a cow over.