![]() ![]() Both books are excellent and fascinating reads, and I recommend that you seek them out this year. That transitioned into reading William Sitwell’s The History of Food in 100 Recipes. I suppose it started when I read Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Chicago Public Library’s One Book One Chicago pick) late last year. Lately, my mind has been turning to the topic of food. And I promise not to turn this book review into a passionate case (like many others out there) for being vegetarian/vegan. And I would agree that the messiness of food, the almost infinite meanings it proliferates, does make the question of eating-and eating animals especially-surprisingly fraught.”ĭisclaimer: I am a vegetarian. ![]() Food choices are likened to fashion choices or life-style preferences-they do not respond to judgments about how we should live. For some, that irrationality leads to a kind of resignation. ![]()
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