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Weaver, Tara Austin
ISBN: 9781605299969
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Rodale Press
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Growing up in a vegetarian family, Tara Austen Weaver never thought she'd stray. But as an adult, she found herself in poor health and, after trying cures of every kind, a doctor finally ordered her to eat meat. Warily, she ventured into the butcher shop, and as the man behind the counter wrapped up her first…
Growing up in a vegetarian family, Tara Austen Weaver never thought she'd stray. But as an adult, she found herself in poor health and, after trying cures of every kind, a doctor finally ordered her to eat meat. Warily, she ventured into the butcher shop, and as the man behind the counter wrapped up her first-ever chicken, she found herself intrigued. Eventually, he dared her to cook her way through his meat counter. As Tara navigates through this confusing new world - grappling with her revulsion to raw meat and trying to find chickens that are truly free-range - she's tempted to give up and go back to eating tempeh. The more she learns about meat and how it's produced, and the effects eating it has on the human body and the planet, the less she feels she knows. She embarks upon a sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening whirlwind tour that takes her from slaughter-house to chef's table, from urban farm to the hearthside of cow wranglers. Along the way, she meets an unforgettable cast of characters who all seem to take a vested interest in whether she opts for turnips or T-bones.
| ISBN | 1605299960 | | Format | Hardback | | ISBN13 | 9781605299969
(What's this?) | | Publication date | 01 Feb 2010 | | Publisher | Rodale Press | | Pages | 272 | | Imprint | RODALE PR | | Volumes | 1 |
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| Ch. 1 | | A First Flirtation with Meat | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Butcher Boys and Chicken Stock, the Hard Way | | 7 | | Ch. 3 | | Beef Stock, a Taste of Meat and Marrow | | 18 | | Ch. 4 | | Chateaubriand and the Cult of Steak | | 28 | | Ch. 5 | | I've Always Wanted to Be an Argentine Gaucho | | 39 | | Ch. 6 | | Bacon Is the Gateway Drug | | 47 | | Ch. 7 | | Happy Holidays, with Roast and Gravy | | 58 | | Ch. 8 | | Of Meat and Men | | 71 | | Ch. 9 | | Michael Pollan and the Politics of Meat | | 78 | | Ch. 10 | | The High-Tech Cowboys of Prather Ranch | | 89 | | Ch. 11 | | When Meat Is the Only Thing all the Menu | | 100 | | Ch. 12 | | A Visit to the Meathenge | | 108 | | Ch. 13 | | About That Health Thing | | 119 | | Ch. 14 | | David Evans and Half a Cow: How Large Is Your Freezer? | | 131 | | Ch. 15 | | Does My Steak Have a Gender? | | 150 | | Ch. 16 | | The D Word | | 160 | | Ch. 17 | | My Week of Meats | | 176 | | Ch. 18 | | What Is the Opposite of Meat? | | 191 | | Ch. 19 | | Meat Is a Battlefield | | 203 | | Ch. 20 | | How It Ends | | 211 | | | | Acknowledgments | | 219 | | | | Resources | | 223 |
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