About
I grew up on a cattle ranch in Southeast Texas, learning to work with my hands before I learned to work with systems.
Nearly two decades in pipeline and industrial construction quality have taken me across the largest transmission projects in North America. I hunt the Gulf Coast marshes and the Piney Woods. I cook what I kill. I write about what that means — the ethics, the weight, the honest math of participating directly in the food chain.
My first book, On the Ethics of Killing: The Moral Math of Eating, is a work of moral philosophy built from that life. These essays and recipes continue the argument.
Read the Essays →Writing
Essay · 2026
On the structure of modern life that separates us from the cost of keeping us alive. The machines that process our food are hidden behind walls we built so we wouldn’t have to look at them. This is about what we lose when the hiding works.
Read on Substack →Book · 2026
Ten chapters. Three phases. One argument that holds up under pressure.
moralmathofeating.com →Essay · Coming
On taking a son into the field for the first time, and what it means to pass down not just a skill but an argument about how to live.
Coming to Substack“The cost of eating is older than agriculture. We just stopped keeping the books.”
The Book
A work of moral philosophy examining the hidden cost of every meal — drawing on thermodynamics, ecology, and a lifetime spent in the Gulf Coast marshes and Piney Woods of Texas.
For readers of Steven Rinella, Michael Pollan, and Tovar Cerulli. Ten chapters across three phases. One argument that holds up under pressure. Available now on Amazon.
Field & Table
Honest recipes from the field — built to make the most of every animal and every harvest. Dispatches are on the way.