The Butcher and the Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through a World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1605299960 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Loved the Orchard House by same author" according to Katie Kinsey. Thinking this book. Loved the Orchard House by same author.. "not quite what it claims on the cover" according to Silea. So this is a book about our protagonist, a lifelong vegetarian ordered by her doctor to start eating meat. Right? Well no. Despite her genuine health issues, it was her accupuncturist, not a medical doctor, who told her to start eating meat. And he didn't tell her to start eating meat so much as he gave her herbs that needed to be steeped in chicken broth. And she's not a lifelong vegetarian so much as person with habitual vegetarian tendencies. Though raised in a strictly vegetarian household, even as a child she regularly ate meat when visiting friends, and as. R PRIUS said Surprisingly Good Book. As a committed carnivore who is coincidentally married to a vegeterian, I wasn't sure I would be able to get into this book. However, it was surprisingly well-written as well as entertaining. The premise of this book is that the life-long vegetarian author had been experiencing a grinding fatigue and weight problem since her early teens. The problem persists through years of doctors visits and tests. In a 'what the heck' moment, the author turns to asian medicine and her doctor hands her a bag of herbs to be cooked with chicken to create a wonder broth. An encou
Growing up in a family that kept jars of bean sprouts on its windowsill before such things were desirable or hip, Tara Austen Weaver never thought she'd stray from vegetarianism. She embarks upon a sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening whirlwind tour that takes her from slaughterhouse to chef's table, from urban farm to the hearthside of cow wranglers. Eventually, he dared her to cook her way through his meat counter. grain-fed beef; finding chickens that are truly free-range she's tempted to give up and go back to eating tempeh. Warily, she ventured into the butcher shop, and as the man behind the counter wrapped up her first-ever chicken, she found herself charmed. 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. The Butcher and the Vegetarian is the rollicking and relevant story of one woman's quest to reconcile a nontraditional
She lives in San Francisco and Seattle. TARA AUSTEN WEAVER, a freelance writer and developmental book editor, started her popular food blog, Tea & Cookies, in 2006 and writes daily for food media blog, Chow. . She serves on the executive committee of Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival, and pioneered the wildly successful Lit Crawl, an event that draws more than 200 authors and crowds of more than 5,000
Though eventually settling on a raw food diet, Weaver avoids prescriptive finger-shaking, encouraging readers to find the diet that's right for them by incorporating a wide range of perspectives. She finds some dishes, like flank steak with chimichurri sauce and Syrian kebabs, life-changing, but turns a critical eye on herself and her endeavor that proves honest and endearing, whether voicing her disappointment in the classic steak house, mulling the ethics of eating dead animals, considering the joys of grilling, chronicling the evolution of USDA dietary recommendations, or detailing the butchering process. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Her narrative maintains a funny, personable tone throughout, more like a knowledgeable friend than a professional reporter. Raised a vegetarian, writer and editor Weaver was always diet-conscious, so it was a bit of a surprise when, in her 30s, her physician recommend meat-eating for her suffering health; Weaver's consequen