My Year of Meats

Recommended by Louise Gray, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #12 in Vegetarian Cooking, Ranked #79 in Japanese

In a single eye-opening year, two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little has landed a job producing Japanese docu-soap My American Wife! But as she researches the consumption of meat in the American home, she begins to realize that her ruthless search for a story is deeply compromising her morals. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, housewife Akiko Ueno diligently prepares the recipes from Jane's programme. Struggling to please her husband, she increasingly doubts her commitment to the life she has fallen into. As Jane and Akiko both battle to assert their... more

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Louise Gray It makes you think about why we eat meat; a lot of it is because of cultural reasons (Source)


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