Meat: A Love Story by Susan BouretteMy review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book combines a few of my favorite genres: foodie books, books where the author travels around researching a specific subject, and books where the author makes some sort of personal voyage. Susan Bourette explores our cultural attachment to eating meat from the point of view of a lapsed sometimes vegetarian. She brings a balanced, real-world point of view to the subject, and writes thoughtfully in chapters ranging from Cajun sausage to whale blubber.
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3 comments:
A "lapsed sometimes vegetarian" who likes meat? Sounds like me! Although I don't think I could ever eat whale blubber- not only because it sounds gross, but not on principle either!
Well, that was one of her points - our attitudes about meat are really culturally ingrained. Had you grown up in the arctic, in that culture, eating whale wouldn't be a moral issue - rather, one of survival. And slaughtering a pig to make blood sausage might be a community event.
Okay, ick!
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