Awesome. Paul Sahre for the New York Times Book Review These days, the meaning of meat is anything but a boutique academic concern. Bookstores are full of titles like Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s “Face on Your Plate” and Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” which ponder the ethics of flesh-eating, while books like Scott Gold’s “Shameless Carnivore,” Bill Buford’s “Heat” and Julie Powell’s forthcoming memoir “Cleaving” — in which the author of “Julie & Julia” overcomes a marital crisis by training as a globe-trotting butcher (think “Chop, Flay, Love”) — explore what might be called its erotics. Rummaging around inside a pig carcass in gloves, Powell grumbles, “Now I know why men hate condoms.” Gawker: Dead Animal Helps Pan Book Decrying Animal Death

Awesome. Paul Sahre for the New York Times Book Review

These days, the meaning of meat is anything but a boutique academic concern. Bookstores are full of titles like Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s “Face on Your Plate” and Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” which ponder the ethics of flesh-eating, while books like Scott Gold’s “Shameless Carnivore,” Bill Buford’s “Heat” and Julie Powell’s forthcoming memoir “Cleaving” — in which the author of “Julie & Julia” overcomes a marital crisis by training as a globe-trotting butcher (think “Chop, Flay, Love”) — explore what might be called its erotics. Rummaging around inside a pig carcass in gloves, Powell grumbles, “Now I know why men hate condoms.”

Gawker: Dead Animal Helps Pan Book Decrying Animal Death

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