Friday, June 20, 2014

Jeanette Winterson sparks Twitter row by catching and cooking rabbit

Author posts pictures of animal as it is skinned and cooked in cider, with entrails fed to cat

Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson tweeted: 'Rabbit ate my parsley. I am eating the rabbit.' Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images
She wrote the acclaimed Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, but award-winning author Jeanette Winterson is in trouble over a rabbit she killed, skinned and cooked in cider.
Winterson posted a picture of the carcass on a kitchen counter on Twitter, with the remark: “Rabbit ate my parsley. I am eating the rabbit.”
      
Her breezy comment, however, along with pictures of the rabbit from carcass to pot accompanied by cider with rosemary and thyme, sparked outrage – among some – on the Twittersphere.
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