America is in the midst of a meat zeitgeist. Butchers have emerged as the rock stars of the culinary world, and cozy gastropubs serving up pork belly, lamb burgers, and sweetbreads rule the restaurant scene. In New York, the humble meatball enjoys entrée status from upscale Gram…
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Berlin Reed is "The Ethical Butcher," a former self-described militant vegan punk who grudgingly took a job as a butcher's apprentice in Brooklyn when he could find no other work. Shockingly, he fell in love with the art of butchering, and a food revol…
"This volume frames meat as politics and with differential meanings as it travels the world. The contributors study the many guises of meat, through scales, and across time and place, to examine with renewed impetus the volatile and power-saturated meanings of "meat." The contri…
"This volume frames meat as politics and with differential meanings as it travels the world. The contributors study the many guises of meat, through scales, and across time and place, to examine with renewed impetus the volatile and power-saturated meanings of "meat." The contri…
How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam -- When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn -- Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova -- Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Je…
"This volume frames meat as politics and with differential meanings as it travels the world. The contributors study the many guises of meat, through scales, and across time and place, to examine with renewed impetus the volatile and power-saturated meanings of "meat." The contri…
"The contributors to Meat! examine the transnational politics of various manifestations and understandings of meat as well as meat's entanglement with power, politics, culture, race, gender, sexuality."--
Small-scale meat processing and preservation for the home cook.
"Nutrition, environmental impact, ethics, sustainability-it seems like there's no end to the factors we must consider when we think about our food. At the center of the dietary storm is animal-based agriculture. Was your beef factory-farmed or pasture-raised? Did your chicken fr…