We don’t imagine that she had the paying of taxes in mind when Stephanie Izard put together episode 5 of her vidcast The Tasty Life, but our abstraction-friendly brain is playing fast and loose with notions of pain, blood, and slaughter on this, the day of our IRS reckoning. Of course, the metaphor isn’t exactly perfect: Izard participates in the slaughter and breakdown of a number of heirloom pigs, and (unlike taxpaying) the upside of the pig side of the equation is that at the end of the day you’ve got delicious, delicious pork products.
If you can’t bring yourself to watch the video this early in the morning, you might have better luck with her writeup, of which our favorite part is: “It was cool to be eating part of an animal that was alive just a few hours before.”
