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June Book Club: The Butcher and the Vegetarian
I started this last night and I'm barely into the second chapter, but I think for this one we should try to have an online chatty chat about it. We'll pick a date for later this month. I'll post up some discussion questions to get the conversation rolling and then we'll let it naturally progress.
Pertinent info:
The Butcher and The Vegetarian by Tara Austen Weaver
It came out in Feb, so it's not in paperback, yet, but I got a copy from the library without much of a wait at all.
synopsis from amazon:
"Food-writer Weaver grew up in a Northern California vegetarian
household, but later developed health issues?overwhelming fatigue and
weight gain?that prompted her doctor to recommend she eat meat. She
started out slowly with chicken stock and worked her way through
chimichurri, chateaubriand, blood sausage, Martha Stewart?s crown roast,
and barbecued meat of all sorts. The year-long experience changed her
life as she encountered appealing butchers, meat clubs for girls only,
and cowboys on eco-friendly ranches. Struggling with the guilt of eating
flesh, she plunged into a deep examination of food as nutrition and
sustenance versus the object of lust and gratification. She explores the
different types and motivations of vegetarians, recalling childhood
memories of wanting to be accepted among the meat-eaters and cheating
outside her mother?s home. Weaver touches on the emotional, ethical,
economic, nutritional, ecological, and gustatory issues involving meat
and food in general that have been highlighted by Michael Pollan and
others. This is a mouthwatering excursion through environmental and food
issues with what may be a surprising denouement for most readers.
--Vanessa Bush
"
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