Herewith an email I received a few years back from a reader:

Your writing is an embarrassment. Please give up your writing career and get a socially useful job. The world would be a better place.

Nevertheless, I’ve persisted.

Read an excerpt from The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat in America

The Price of Plenty is my latest book (October 2025), and my truest labor of love. I dropped what I’d been working on (another book about beer) in order to make this one. I’m happy with it. Perhaps you will be, too.

Available in paperback, hardcover, e-book, and audiobook. You can purchase the latter wherever such ear sustenance is available.

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, bookshop.org, Kobo

Or, hey! Ask your library to get a copy.

If you enjoy it, tell a friend. If you don’t, tell me.

As always, thanks for making reading a part of your life.