Weekend Meditation: Respect
Like many people, I have been a vegetarian for at least some part of my life. These days I choose to eat meat but on a very limited basis and I'm very particular about the conditions in which the ani...
Like many people, I have been a vegetarian for at least some part of my life. These days I choose to eat meat but on a very limited basis and I'm very particular about the conditions in which the ani...
When regarding the legitimacy of Food content on TV one question is paramount: where is the line between entertainment and enlightenment? Naturally, any delineation is completely subjective, as much ...
The British television network Channel 4 has a fantastic website for all things pork and pig. The site supports the series The Great British Food Fight in which four well known chefs celebrate the ve...
Guerra's Meats has been in San Francisco since the 1950's and is one of the last old fashioned butcher shops in the Bay Area. While they still offer the same quality and service one would expect from...
A & S Pork Store in Park Slope, Brooklyn is closing on October 1. This real butcher shop is our source for sausages, roasts, and the best homemade mozzarella and ricotta we've ever tasted. A&S is clo...
My first visit to Avedano’s market was in December of 07 when my friend Mimi and I sought them out for our second annual marrowbone holiday feast. When it comes to marrowbones, you see, we wanted t...
Yesterday's post on supermarket lamb brought at least one suggestion to forgo grocery meat entirely and substitute entire sides of lamb (or pig, or cow) that you buy and freeze. We have friends who do...
While in Napa last weekend, we visited the new Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa. Oxbow is a large food hall where everything on sale is food-related in some way; from spices to tea, to wine and k...
Our friends at The Brooklyn Kitchen just posted a new series of classes including Lamb and Pig Butchering. Next month Grocery Guy Tom Mylan will show how to cut up a half a pig and a whole lamb. He'...