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  • Anything That Moves

  • Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture
  • By: Dana Goodyear
  • Narrated by: Jane Jacobs
  • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)

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Anything That Moves

By: Dana Goodyear
Narrated by: Jane Jacobs
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A new American cuisine is forming. Animals never before considered or long since forgotten are emerging as delicacies. Parts that used to be for scrap are centerpieces. Ash and hay are fashionable ingredients, and you pay handsomely to breathe flavored air. Going out to a nice dinner now often precipitates a confrontation with a fundamental question: Is that food?

Anything That Moves, a behind-the-scenes look at foodie culture, is simultaneously a humorous adventure and a serious attempt to understand the implications of the way we eat. This is a universe populated by insect-eaters and blood drinkers, avant-garde chefs who make food out of roadside leaves and wood, and others who serve endangered species, pets, and Schedule I drugs-a cast of characters, in other words, who flirt with danger, taboo, and disgust in pursuit of the sublime. Behind them is an intricate network of scavengers, dealers, and pitchmen responsible for introducing rare and exotic ingredients into the marketplace and, ultimately, bringing them to the family table.

Highly entertaining and deeply revelatory, Anything That Moves explores the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture, and the places where the extreme is bleeding into the mainstream.

©2013 Dana Goodyear (P)2013 Tantor
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"Goodyear's exploration of this engrossing and morally complex topic provides a solid footing for hearty conversations." ( Kirkus Starred Review)

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No Dessert for Me, Thanks!

Ugh... the most wild, crazy, grossest, funnest food stories! This goes way beyond anything The Food Channel has on prime-time. The dish about the dishes is interesting enough, but the author does a beautiful job of illustrating the people behind the forks. Who they are, what motivates them, what they're like, where they live. Gloriously written!

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A Fascinating Look Into Food Culture

This book is a must-listen for anyone whose curiosity is piqued by the description. The narration is smooth, and the narrator's voice fits the book well. This will be a book I revisit time and again.

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Love it!

This clever book really gets the time we're in and our relationship to food. The insightful material is further enhanced by top notch, clever and assertive narration by Jane Jacobs.

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