The Shameless Carnivore explores the complexityies surrouding the choice to eat meat as well as its myriad pleasures. Delving into everything from ethical issues to dietary, anthropological, and medical findings, Gold answers such probing questions as: Can staying carnivorous be more healthful than going vegetarian? What's behind the "tastes like chicken" phenomenon? And, of course, What qualities should you look for in a butcher? The author also chronicles his attempt to become the "ultimate carnivore" by eating 31 different meats in 31 days (as well as every cut and organ of a cow). He includes tasty recipes and describes his experiences hunting squirrels in Louisiana, attending the annual Testicle Festival, and even spending an entire, painstaking week as a vegetarian.

Hugh Fearnley Whittingsall's seminal volume on the philosophy and methodology of meat.