PositiveLibrary JournalEagle is a chef, pickler, and blogger, and his debut book is an assured, thoughtful, and entertaining meditation on the nature of cooking and how it touches on so many aspects of existence, not the least of which is death ... He doesn’t shy away from the harder parts of cookery, including slaughter and butchery, and the recipes are not really the point; instead, one trenchant idea is how food creates a web of interconnection ... Eagle enjoys thinking about food in all its ephemerality and here succeeds in sharing that experience. A solid pick for fans of food writers Nigel Slater, John Thorne, or Laurie Colwin.
