Of Names and Covers
So many of you know, I’m vegetarian; which may make what I’m about to do seem kind of strange, but bear with me. Of late, I was reviewing the audio version of the book, The Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Change the World by Kathy Freston. It is a book about, well, veganism. I will try (unsuccessfully, no doubt) to avoid commenting on the book’s content; that is a post (actually several posts—see, there I go again) for another time. My focus right now is simply on the cover and its presentation. I'm having trouble swallowing this cover. Or rather, I'm feeling messages coming from this cover are problematic. The iconography of the cover is problematic. Here is a blonde-hair, green-eyed fashionable woman serving me (the presumable purchaser of the book), aq beautiful, but largely hard to decipher play of food. She's clearly in a kitchen or some room connected to the kitchen. Taken together, here is our way to "lose weight, get healthy, chang