Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster

By: Walker, Nicole

Book Overview

2022 New Mexico- Arizona Book Award Finalist

" Walker] produces observations as beautifully written as they are thoughtful...An effective illumination of the profound difference between right thought and right action.'"
--KIRKUS REVIEWS

Nicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means of coping when she struggled to get pregnant. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she cooked veggie burgers for friends and hamburgers for herself--to enjoy outside, six feet apart. Her Mormon ancestors canned peaches to prepare for the End of Days and congealed beef broth into aspic as a surefire cure for ailment. Throughout the richly layered essays of Processed Meats, Walker ponders food choices and life choices, dissecting how we process disaster, repackage it, and turn it into something edible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194881434X
• ISBN13: 9781948814348
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Torrey House Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"