Fat Chance
A food writer leaves his profession to confront his relationship with food
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11 min readSep 22, 2020
The carcass stared back.
When I saw that pile of bones, it felt like a bucket of ice water dumped on my head — bucket included. That was when the switch flipped.
Screenwriters call this awakening “the inciting incident,” the moment when the protagonist reaches a fork in…
