The Face on Your Plate by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and the environment. This gracefully told tale, laced with deep disappointment and acknowledged revenge, is of greater interest for its glimpse of an unusual family than for its sad unmasking of a hero. The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson 3.84 1,135 ratings140 reviews The best-selling author of When Elephants Weep explores our relationship with the animals we call food. He and Brunton broke their relationship when the author was in his mid-20s, though P.B. Strongly influenced by the ascetic, mysterious Brunton (``He rarely openly stated anything, he preferred to hint''), the young Masson was treated as ``a little guru in the making.'' But years of travel and study (at Harvard College and Oxford University, where he became a Sanskrit scholar) made Masson less willing a believer. In the years following, Brunton-known as P.B.-often lived with the Masson family, which included the author's mother Diana and his sister Linda. In 1945, when the author was four years old, his father, Jacques, whose family was originally from Bukhara in Central Asia, spent four months in India with Paul Brunton (1898-1981), an English writer largely credited with introducing Indian mysticism to the West.

Here he combines autobiography with the examination of another exalted, and then diminished, figure in his life. In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and the environment. In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and our planet. In Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychologist, Masson told of his pursuit and abandonment of his career as a psychoanalyst, the time of his life during which he also wrote The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of the bestselling When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love, as well as The Pig Who Sang to the Moon and The.

The Face on Your Plate by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson