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...Already a best seller in France, Pork & Sons won the Grand Prix de la Gastronomie Française and is being published in English in time for the newly dawned Year of the Pig. Part cookbook, part personal narrative, it reflects the allegiances of its author, Stéphane Reynaud, a self-taught chef who was born into the meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature...
...flavors and insights unfold over the course of 13 chapters. The pages are peppered with dozens of photographs of the region and its people, and with playful cartoons drawn by Reynaud's close friend, José Reis de Matos. The visuals complement the chatty, engaging voice of the author as he introduces some of his accomplices: Aimé, the "prince of the art of cutting up the carcass"; Bibi, the bistro owner with a "paunch as welcoming as a soft pillow to a tired head at night"; and Pompon, the Armagnac supplier who doubles as a "learned professor...
...course, Reynaud makes sure to acquaint readers with the average Ardèche swine, whose life may be prematurely curtailed but is nothing short of blissful while it lasts. On a spread devoted to Eric, a pig rearer, the author proclaims that "Eric's pigs are happy pigs." And why wouldn't they be? From the age of three weeks they are pampered with a banquet of whey, potatoes and cabbage; their lifestyle is "No stress, plenty of space and lots and lots to eat." The emphasis in Reynaud's world is on quality, both of life and of meat...
...can’t really go wrong there,” says Wiggin. HUDS pulls out all the stops to keep the lentils and tofu inspired: Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin meets with a vegetarian committee regularly, and has worked with Mollie Katzan, a vegetarian cookbook author whom Martin claims is a “great resource to open up options.” From HUDS’ tofu walnut broccoli stir-fry to Felipe’s grilled vegetable burrito, vegetarians at Harvard have plenty to munch on—and now they have a community should...
Tomorrow’s lecture also comes on the heels of several incidents that have brought issues of diversity into the spotlight at Tufts. At last fall’s Snyder Presidential lecture at Tufts, author Shelby Steele spoke out strongly against affirmative action...