April Bloomfield’s A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories – the hilarious reviews

WHAT are the critics saying about British-born, New York-based chef April Bloomfield’s A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories? If you like eating pigs, it promises to be cracking read. Her intro even offers the chance to chortle: “When I was girl, I wanted to be a policewoman…”

She turned to another kind of piggery for a career. On Amazon, though, many are outraged and upset. The reviews are memorable.

Pity the piglets:

This is the most disgusting cover and should be taken out from any book display… The cover of this book is absolutely disgusting, revolting and insensitive… I don’t think I can hold it in my hand without cringing, and I cannot imagine the “book” being displayed where young children are present.

I read no more:

This is the most disgusting cover and should be taken out from any book display.The killing of animal for food is a fact of life but doesnt need to be shown as a trophee. In fact as soon as it appear on Amazon, it simply put me off culinary book altogether. I am a regular customer of cook books but i have to say that this put me off completely to buy anything for a long time – Nash

I saw this book in a bookstore and felt bad for the poor pig, what angered me next was a woman who dragged her young daughter over to see it and they both laughed. What the hell is wrong with people when they find dead animals amusing? I really wanted to slap both of them! It’s a very sad world we live in 🙁 – Gail Witham

Meanwhile…in Russia: 

What a tasteless, insensitive, repulsive cover. Dead baby animal on display. Don’t bother to argue that is what meat is. Graveyards are full of corpses. I don’t need to see photos of them displayed on the cemetary walls  – CBC

I’m not pigist but…:

I would lose my appetite everytime I picked up this cookbook to prepare anything from it.

I’m not a chef. I’m an ordinary person who likes to cook and entertain. I do handle larger cuts of meat and poultry that I cut up myself. I’ve cleaned freshly caught fish…

This is America, the land of free speech and the right to express an opinion… I am not willing to spend my money on a product that carelessly displays a dead animal for commercial appeal – Cathy

Do judge a book by its cover:

Poor pig that got murdered. I find the cover distasteful. Dont judge a book by it’s covers? In this case, I have! – Don Grego

The Malaysian sequel- A Girl and her Puppy:

It saddens me to see a book so casually flaunting a killed pig. Actually, this is only a piglet.. several weeks old. Would this be so acceptable had it been a calf (“veal”), or better yet a puppy? – L. Jorgensen

DIE!

SHAME ON APRIL BLOOMFIELD FOR HOLDING A TORTURED AND KILLED INNOCENT PIG ACROSS HER SHOULDERS LIKE A PRIZE! A GIRL AND HER PIG? THE TITLE SOUNDS AS IF SHE HAS KILLED HER OWN BELOVED PET TO SATISFY HER SALIVARY GLANDS! DISGUSTING! I HOPE THIS COVER TURNS OFF MANY POTENTIAL BUYERS! SHE DESERVES THE CHOLESTEROL AND ALL THE COMPLICATIONS IT BRINGS! – LUCKY TO LIVE IN LA (LA,CA)

Who else if off to buy one, then..?

Anorak

Posted: 29th, December 2012 | In: Books | Comment (1)