My Year of Meats, (Paperback)

from Citizenjoyce

I'd been reluctant to read this book because I'd thought it might be some kind of memoir of working in a butcher shop. But I loved her A Tale For the Time Being, so I gave it a try. At first I was ...

from calmclam

Surprisingly entertaining and engaging! I came across this book while under the impression that it was some sort of memoir documentary, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's the story of a...

from ursula

The "year of meats" of the title is the year that Jane Takagi-Little, a half-Japanese American woman, spends working on a Japanese TV show called "My American Wife!" The premise is that each progra...

from mstrust

Out-of-work documentarian Jane helps create a Japanese tv program called "My American Wife!" that will show Japanese housewives how American women feed their families. As the show is really adverti...

from hippiemommy

I liked this book. It definitely has a documentary-like quality to it, and I appreciated the facts about the meat industry. The information probably won't shock you if you've read The Omnivore's Di...