The Meat Club

THE MEAT CLUB COOKBOOK: For Gals Who Love Their Meat!


By Vanessa Dina and Kristina Fuller and Gemma DePalma
Illustrations by Caroline Hwang
6 x 8 in; 136 pp; 35 color illustrations. Hardcover. Published in March, 2006. ISBN 0811845257. $18.95



Several months ago I was attending a luncheon in New York, and when the man seated next to me learned I was a food writer, he told me all about his daughter and her two best friends who were working on a meat cookbook.

Apparently these gals had never published anything before. They did not have chef training nor any professional food industry background. They were not cooking teachers, and had in fact, no special knowledge whatsoever about meat, nor even any particular cooking skills before they started research for the book. They were just three young San Francisco housewives who had married well and were looking for something “fun