1976 | United States | Performance

Learn Where the Meat Comes From

  • English - 13 mins
  • Director | Suzanne Lacy
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | David Ross

STATUS: Released

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A classic feminist video, Learn Where the Meat Comes From depicts how “gourmet carnivore tastes take on a cannibalistic edge. This parody of a Julia Child cooking lesson collapses the roles of consumer and consumed: Lacy instructs us in the proper butcher’s terms for cuts of meat by pointing them out on her body. As the lesson progresses she becomes more and more animal-like, growling and baring over-sized incisors. Perhaps, in her role as a gourmet cook, she is herself as much consumed as consumer.”

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