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The Butcher And The Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through A World Of Men, Meat, And Moral Crisis (2010)

by Tara Austen Weaver(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1605299960 (ISBN13: 9781605299969)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Rodale Books

review 1: Tara grew up in with a mother that was staunchly vegetarian. The only time she ate meat was while eating out or at friends houses. But after not feeling well for an extended period her doctor told her that she needed to eat meat. For someone who didn't know how to cook meat or have fond memories of it cooking she had a very steep learning curve indeed. This books explores what it means to be a meat-eater or a vegetarian or a flexitarian or any of the other labels that we put on ourselves about the food we put in our mouths. Thoughtful and well-written, I enjoyed reading about her explorations into the majority food culture of the US.
review 2: While it looks like a romance novel its not. Having read most of the books that she referenced, I spent time skipping ... morelarge portions of the narrative. What was interesting to me is that a vegetarian raised vegetarian would start off on this exploration of meat. She was fairly brave about trying new things even with the soul wrestling involved.What seemed very bizarre to me was her constant division between meat eater as male and vegetarians as female. I thought it was odd and eventually irritating. She did explain why she thought of it that way, but I just couldn't relate. less

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