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Tara Austen Weaver
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Monday Feb 22, 2010 (7:30pm)
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Monday, February 22
7:30 PM
Tara Austen Weaver
THE BUTCHER & THE VEGETARIAN:
One Woman’s Romp Through a World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis
Food writer and blogger Tara Austen Weaver shares her uproarious, firsthand account of what happens when a lifelong vegetarian enters the mysterious world
of Chateaubriands, London Broils, and osso buco style cuts... and the
men who spend their days working with them.
Growing up in a family that kept jars of bean sprouts on its windowsill before such things were desirable or hip, Weaver never thought she'd stray from vegetarianism. But as an adult, she found herself in poor health, and, having tried cures of every kind, a doctor finally ordered her to eat meat. Warily, she ventured into the butcher shop, and as the man behind the counter wrapped up her first-ever chicken, she found herself charmed. Eventually, he dared her to cook her way through his meat counter. As
Tara Austen Weaver is an award-winning writer whose work focuses on the themes of food, travel, art, and adventure. Her writing has been published in Edible San Francisco, on Chow.com, and in numerous anthologies. Her food blog, Tea and Cookies, was selected by the Times of London as one of the top food blogs in the world.
