Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine
editor, she had left New York City to pursue a simpler life in her
home state of Oregon, with the man she wanted to marry, and taken
an appealing job at a Portland magazine. But neither job nor man
delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Camas was
unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on. Disillusioned
by the decade she had spent as a lifestyle journalist, advising
other people how to live their best lives, she had little idea how
best to live her own life. She did know one thing: She no longer
wanted to write about the genuine article, she wanted to be it. So
when a friend told her about Kate Hill, an American woman living in
Gascony, France who ran a cooking school and took in strays in
exchange for painting fences and making beds, it sounded like just
what she needed. She discovered a forgotten credit card that had
just enough credit on it to buy a plane ticket and took it as
kismet. Upon her arrival, Kate introduced her to the Chapolard
brothers, a family of Gascon pig farmers and butchers, who were
willing to take Camas under their wing, inviting her to work
alongside them in their slaughterhouse and cutting room. In the
process, the Chapolards inducted her into their way of life, which
prizes pleasure, compassion, community, and authenticity above all
else, forcing Camas to question everything she'd believed about
life, death, and dinner. So begins Camas Davis's funny, heartfelt,
searching memoir of her unexpected journey from knowing magazine
editor to humble butcher. It's a story that takes her from an
eye-opening stint in rural France where deep artisanal craft and
whole-animal gastronomy thrive despite the rise of mass-scale
agribusiness, back to a Portland in the throes of a food
revolution, where Camas attempts--sometimes successfully, sometimes
not--to translate much of this old-world craft and way of life into
a new world setting. Along the way, Camas learns what it really
means to pursue the real thing and dedicate your life to it.
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