A SHORT PANEGYRIC

NOW that the vegetarian nightmare is over and we are back to our diet of meat and deep in the sway of our dark and beautiful habits and able to speak with calm of having survived, let the breeze of the future touch and retouch our large and hungering bodies. Let us march to market to embrace the butcher and put the year of the carrot, the month of the onion behind us; let us worship the roast or the stew that takes its place once again at the sacred center of the dining room table.