Love the shout out to the amazing, well, counter-cultural love song, San Francisco Nights. If ever there was a song - and its aching, yearning lyrics - joined (with cement shoes, really) to a historical moment, the fleeting, mythical Summer of Love’ this might be at the very top of the table.
I was a huge Animals fan in 1967, we played a few of their songs in my high school rock band (We Gotta Get Out of This Place!) - but sadly, not this one. Not enough Jersey feel I guess. That didn’t stop me from dreaming of San Francisco, though, and this song fed right into that. It took me almost 30 years, but I finally made it.
I wasn't born there
Perhaps I'll die there
There's no place left to go
San Francisco
But anyway, about the books :) I started reading Alicia Kennedy’s No Meat Required yesterday, then took it to bed - I could/did not want to put it down.
This book is wonderfully engaging, gives you so much to think about, bringing together the personal - Alicia’s story but even more important, connecting everything to your own story with food (eating, cooking, shopping, dining, ....) - with the cultural, and of course in that the political and historical. Also, the dominant narrative on vegans and vegetarians is thoroughly taken apart, in a way that I suspect you will not find anywhere else.
I’m not quite done with it, but already: I think Chapter 2, Meat’s Meaning, will knock you over.
Love the shout out to the amazing, well, counter-cultural love song, San Francisco Nights. If ever there was a song - and its aching, yearning lyrics - joined (with cement shoes, really) to a historical moment, the fleeting, mythical Summer of Love’ this might be at the very top of the table.
I was a huge Animals fan in 1967, we played a few of their songs in my high school rock band (We Gotta Get Out of This Place!) - but sadly, not this one. Not enough Jersey feel I guess. That didn’t stop me from dreaming of San Francisco, though, and this song fed right into that. It took me almost 30 years, but I finally made it.
I wasn't born there
Perhaps I'll die there
There's no place left to go
San Francisco
But anyway, about the books :) I started reading Alicia Kennedy’s No Meat Required yesterday, then took it to bed - I could/did not want to put it down.
This book is wonderfully engaging, gives you so much to think about, bringing together the personal - Alicia’s story but even more important, connecting everything to your own story with food (eating, cooking, shopping, dining, ....) - with the cultural, and of course in that the political and historical. Also, the dominant narrative on vegans and vegetarians is thoroughly taken apart, in a way that I suspect you will not find anywhere else.
I’m not quite done with it, but already: I think Chapter 2, Meat’s Meaning, will knock you over.
Lol I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on something called spaghetti mayhem 🫣😂
Thanks for sharing so much about the book, Bruce!