Food stands at the crossroads of various fields: economical, social, cultural, religious, material, and environmental. This is particularly true for meat due to the modalities of its production, its consumption, and its representation. It is a source of tensions and ambiguities, of desire and disgust. As such, animal flesh goes through multiple processes leading from the procurement the “raw material” to consuming it as food. This appears as an eminently cultural construction made by material techniques. The historiography has traditionally characterized meat as an aliment being rare, expensive, mainly, if not solely consumed by the elites. While this vision for the Medieval Christian West has been nuanced and pondered since, it is all the...