Burning Beast: Herbivore's Nightmare, Carnivore's Dream

For the past three years, the wild lands north of Seattle have played host to the Burning Man of food: Burning Beast. Featuring many of Seattle's finest chefs, teams prepare an animal, vegetable and/or sea creature using earth, fire, steel and little else. In addition to actually burning beasts - from rabbit to goat to lamb - the event focuses on local and sustainable cooking. This year's sell out crowd looked pretty happy. Except for the vegetarians.