Musings of a Vegetarian Traveller is the opening story in this collection of tales, told by a woman whose appetite for life and travel took her on innumerable journeys. One of the most notable-her journey from meat eater to vegetarian-provides a deeply personal and sometimes very funny look into the worlds she encountered. But as Maureen says, 'The story of my transformation from a meat-eating to vegetarian traveller is not about food, but rather, it is about the interesting, diverting, amusing.