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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad

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Is that all these people can cook? Another one from this season was wearing a diagram of a cow with all its "cuts" outlined. Today's vile episode is one featuring French cooking. I have yet to see an episode featuring vegetarian cooking. I have yet to see an episode featuring vegetarian cooking. What the eff?

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Farmer writes about the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, where kids 5 to 11-years old are taught cooking in a place "that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure." For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. One is male.

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On "Cheating" and Cookbook Authors

Animal Person

the way we treat animals, and the way we turn food into food facsimiles with unusually long shelf lives. You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. Alicia (laughing): Well, I'd have to see the cows and the chickens. It was full of Michael Pollan, Food Inc.,

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On Changing Tastes

Animal Person

Her hurdle, you might not be surprised to learn, is cheese made from the milk of cows. She eats cow cheese daily. I was completely confident that she'd instantly get over her desire for cow cheese. The texture apparently is "slimy" (which is true, mid-cook, which it wasn't when she tried it.

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On Vegan Grenades

Animal Person

Exhibit A: Mary Martin, PhD--Animal Person. Exhibit B: My animal-eating husband, who about six years ago said: "Trust me, I feel the same way you do about animals, but I need to do this on my time. And four long years later he said: "The only reason I still eat animals is because you keep buying them and cooking them for me."

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries?

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Shadows of Africa

10,000 Birds

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good! Driving slowly behind them… The guide knows his animals. They are crossing one or two at a time.

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