“I could reward [my father] with food, because it is my most religious belief that a recipe is just a story that ends with a good meal.”
— Pat Conroy
The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life (2004)
These recipes will be the ones that not only involve meat, but are used as the main course… which in my case is almost always the only course (other than dessert). Most (but not all) of these meals have simple pathways leading to vegetarian and vegan versions that still leave the spirit of the dish essentially intact.