On Food and Cooking

throughout history have found this a morally
unacceptable price for our own nourishment
and pleasure. The ethical argument against
eating meat suggests that the same food that
fueled the biological evolution of modern
humans now holds us back from full
humaneness. But the biological and historical
influences on our eating habits have their own
force. However culturally sophisticated we
may be, humans are still omnivorous animals,
and meat is a satisfying and nourishing food,
an integral part of most food traditions.

Meat    Fit and Unfit   for Men and Gods

Outside Troy,   Greek   priests sacrifice   cattle

to  Apollo: first   they    lifted  back    the heads

of  the victims,    slit    their   throats,    skinned

them    and carved  away    the meat    from    the

thighbones  and wrapped them    in  fat,    a

double  fold    sliced  clean   and topped  with

strips  of  flesh.  And the old man burned

these   over    dried   split   wood    and over    the