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The butcher and the vegetarian : one woman's romp through a world of men, meat, and moral crisis / Tara Austen Weaver.

by Weaver, Tara Austen.

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Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2010.

Weaver, Tara Austen -- Health.

Hypothyroidism -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

9781605299969 (hardcover)

1605299960 (hardcover)

ix, 228 p. ; 24 cm.

A first flirtation with meat -- Butcher boys and chicken stock, the hard way -- Beef stock, a taste of meat and marrow -- Châteaubriand and the cult of steak -- I've always wanted to be an Argentine gaucho -- Bacon is the gateway drug -- Happy holidays, with roast and gravy -- Of meat and men -- Michael Pollan and the politics of meat -- The high-tech cowboys of Prather Ranch -- When meat is the only thing on the menu -- A visit to the meathenge -- About that health thing -- Dave Evans and half a cow: how large is your freezer? -- Does my steak have a gender? -- The D word -- My week of meats -- What is the opposite of meat? -- Meat is a battlefield -- How it ends.

Tara Austen Weaver's memoir is the rollicking and relevant story of her quest to reconcile a nontraditional vegetarian upbringing with the carnal desires of eating meat.

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