Posted by Tracy in : meat, geekery, not even vegetarian, vegan, vegetarian, friends, books, cooking ,
This week in Tracy’s culinary schizophrenia: thanks to the best library hold request coincidence ever, I’m currently borrowing and thoroughly enjoying both The River Cottage Meat Book and Veganomicon. To my ever-loving surprise, they have not mutually annihilated, and I am very happy to recommend them both. Highly. Oh, and by the way, I first learned about The River Cottage Meat Book by reading The Ethics of What We Eat
by Peter “Animal Liberation” Singer, so give me some veg*n-geek cred at least. Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall, author of The River Cottage Meat Book, is quite the (food) geek himself; even in his picture on the book’s spine, he looks like a sensitive nerd who faced up to the horrors of factory farms and resolved to find the best way possible to not give up eating bacon. The text of his book does not contradict that first impression, oh no. I find it quite charming, as well as his chatty, somewhat imprecise recipes, and above all his devotion to the pleasures of cooking as well as those of eating, which of course is a subject very near and dear to my own heart. Regular readers of this blog already know of my unholy love (no pun intended) for The Post-Punk Kitchen and all its works of delicious awesomeness (see, um, here for lots of examples). (more…)
