Vegetarian Star

Julia Child rarely showed any love for vegetarians.

And the author of her life story, Julia Powell, admits she wasn’t keen on eating less meat until she read a book by one irritating vegetarian author named Jonathan Safran Foer.

“Jonathan Safran Foer irritates the shit out of me, but he’s right,” Powell said.

“He and I are really together in that what we’re trying to come to a decision about what we feel like we can eat. There’s got to be some middle ground between the industrial farming system and all the ways that’s broken and the various privileged ways people like me [respond].”

Powell now calls herself a “restaurant vegetarian”–meaning she will only eat meat when she knows where it’s coming from.

Working in a butcher shop allowed Powell to witness the gory details of “gruesomely grinning, fleshy half skulls, eyes still in their sockets” before meat gets to the plate.

“If you make a relationship with the people you’re getting your food from, you’re going to feel so much better, I promise,” said the author of Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.

Or lose your lunch.

Like Paul McCartney said, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.”

via thedailybeast.com via treehugger.com

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Julia Child was not exactly known for her love of vegetarian food or vegetarians.

So it’s a funny and refreshing coincidence to learn Child’s old home is now occupied by a vegetarian and animal rights activist.

Lisa Landsverk is the owner of Child’s house on Irving Street in Cambridge where Child lived and cooked for 43 years.

Landsverk said the situation is a “bit ironic.”

Inside the home, there is a painting of a cow with a caption that reads, “Nobody says when I grow up I want to be a hamburger.”

Fans and media stop by to take pictures of the home and one person even left a stick of butter on the fence post.

Yeah…we were thinking the same thing-CREEPY!

As part of the hoopla surrounding the movie, Julia & Julia, Landsverk allowed a reporter into her home and cooked one of Julia’s recipes-a completely vegan one.

“Landsverk chose ratatouille for an entrée – she liked Child’s assertion that the eggplant casserole “perfumes the kitchen with the essence of Provence’’ – and, for dessert, pêches cardinal, a compote of fresh peaches with raspberry purée.”

Forty-three years of meaty cooking in the kitchen?

The ironic situation of Landsverk living in Child’s home now is good karma that’s been long overdue.

via boston.com

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