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All Posts Tagged: ‘shameless carnivore’

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6/10/08

1:35 PM

Dating Show Pairs Brooklyn Foodies for Lovin’ by the Oven

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Things are heating up between Cathy Erway and Jay Lombard.Photo courtesy of Feed Me

A new Internet dating show, Feed Me, pairs up Brooklyn foodies for blind dates in which they cook their go-to dishes for each other. In the first episode (the only one online so far), Lisa Lucas admires Scott Owen’s blowtorch as he prepares crème brûlée. Free-flowing wine doesn’t make the banter any less awkward, and, needless to say, R. Kelly–style “sex in the kitchen” does not ensue. It’s all very cute, but here’s hoping future episodes have more of a Hell Date angle — perhaps “Shameless Carnivore” Scott Gold, who’s slated to appear soon, can sear foie gras for a vegan as a little person with a pitchfork waits in the shadows.

Feed Me [Official site, via Brooklyn Based]

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3/14/08

1:35 PM

Shameless Carnivore Stands to Be Corrected by Compassionate Carnivore

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The Shameless Carnivore meets its match.Courtesy of Broadway Books and Da Capo Press

Scott Gold’s The Shameless Carnivore, which we wrote about last fall, no longer has the edible-animal-manifesto field to itself: Despite a long and positive review in T magazine last Sunday, competition is on its way in the form of The Compassionate Carnivore, a considerably less genial creed than Gold’s that's coming out on April 21. Where the latter is a lightly self-assured journey though the joys of eating everything on four legs, the latter, by the felicitously named Catherine Friend, looks to be far more ethically rigorous (and less fun): “Catherine Friend tackles the carnivore’s dilemma, exploring the contradictions, nuances, and questions surrounding the bewildering choices facing today’s more conscious meat-eaters,” says the book’s promotional copy. Now that sounds like fun! Of course, the whole pleasure of eating animals is in forgetting what they used to be on the way to becoming that glistening, bronzed pork chop or plump, unctuous sausage. But that view seems to be a minority one nowadays.

Battle of the Beefy Books: Shameless vs. Compassionate Carnivore [Epi-Log/Epicurious]
Related: Greenpoint Man Eats Everything on Four Legs

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10/24/07

5:15 PM

Greenpoint Man Eats Everything on Four Legs

Scott Gold, aiming for conspicuous carnivorous consumption.Photo: Scott Gold

We are especially attached to edible animals, but we have to hand it to Greenpoint resident Scott Gold, the author of the forthcoming book The Shameless Carnivore. The 30-year-old former literary agent puts us to shame when it comes to the breadth of his appetites. Although his book is filled with dietetic information, ethics, meat lore, cultural anthropology, and the like, the thing that really turns us on is the part where he ate 31 animals in 31 days. “It wasn’t one a day,” Gold assures us. “Some nights it would be three or four. On venison night, I ate whitetail deer, antelope, elk, and caribou. But on the other hand, turtle soup took two days to prepare.”

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