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Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef Paperback / softback - 2009
by Betty Fussell
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In Raising Steaks, Betty Fussell saddles up for a spirited ride across America on the trail of our most iconic food in a celebration of, and an elegy for, a uniquely American Dream.
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- Title Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef
- Author Betty Fussell
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvest Publications, Boston
- Date 2009-10-22
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780547247694
- ISBN 9780547247694 / 0547247699
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.5 x 0.98 in (20.37 x 13.97 x 2.49 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 636.213
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Summary
When we bite into a steak's charred crust and pink interior, we bite into contradictions that have branded our nation from the start. We taste the competing fantasies of British pastoralists and Spanish ranchers that erupted in land wars between a wet-weather East and a desert West. We savor the ideas of wilderness and progress that clashed when we replaced buffalo with cattle, and then cowboys with industrial machines. We witness rugged individualism and corporate technology collide when we breed, feed, slaughter, package, and distribute the animals we turn into meat. And we participatelike the cattlemen, chefs, feedlot operators, and scientists Fussell talks within the mythology that inspires cowboys to become technocrats and presidents to play cowboy.
A celebration and an elegy for a uniquely American Dream, Raising Steaks takes an "unflinching look at the ethical and environmental implications of modern meat ... yet leaves us with a powerful hankering for a thick T-bone grilled rare"--Michael Pollan
From the jacket flap
In Raising Steaks, Betty Fussell saddles up for a spirited ride across America on the trail of our most iconic food. When we bite into a steak's charred crust and pink interior, we bite into contradictions that have branded our national identity from the start. We taste the colliding fantasies of British pastoralists and Spanish ranchers that erupted in land wars between a wet-weather East and a desert West. We savor the ideas of wilderness and progress that clashed when we replaced buffalo with cattle, and then cowboys with industrial machines. We take in the contradictions of rugged individualism and the corporate technology that we use to breed, feed, slaughter, package, and distribute the animals we turn into meat. And we participate as do the cattlemen and chefs, feedlot operators and rodeo stars, boot makers and scientists Fussell talks with in the mythology that inspires cowboys to become technocrats and presidents to play cowboy. Raising Steaks is a celebration of, and an elegy for, a uniquely American Dream. "