Entries tagged with 'butchers'
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Barring breaking news or or a random programming change, Nightline will highlight the whole "rockstar butcher" phenomenon. Says The-Feedbag blog's Josh Ozersky, "Let's face it, there's something very erotic about about seeing whole animal carcasses cut up." 11:35 p.m. ET, ABC...
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If you like animations and sausage, you'll love this video. It's the classic story of dog and hanging meat products—dog attempts to eat scrappy dog food for about a second before going after nearby sausage ropes. The adorable two-minute animated short, after the jump....
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Get Rich Slowly reviews Confessions of a Butcher, which sounds like a great book to consult if you want to save money on grocery bills. It's packed with insider info: "In a blue-collar meat and potatoes kind of neighborhood, lamb is not a regular part of the diet, but the local supermarket still has to carry a lamb lineup. In these types of stores, you may find legs of lamb and the like reduced to sell."...
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BBC News Charges have been dropped against Brian Clapton, an East London butcher whose early morning singing and meat-chopping prompted complaints from the tenant in the apartment above Clapton's shop. As Clapton tells BBC News: "I'll continue to sing and carry out my business. I can get by in the credit crunch." In response to the news, BBC Radio 6 Music will be playing a block of meat- and butcher-related songs at 6 p.m. London time, which is about an hour from now. So far, listeners have suggested "Start Chopping" by Dinosaur Jr., "Meathook," by the Cure, and "Sing for Your Meat" by Guided by Voices....
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According to the Bellevue Reporter, Whole Foods requires each staff butcher to complete a 1,920-hour training process, which lasts about two years. They start with clean-up duties, then the counter, then cutting duties, which starts with poultry, then pork, and finally beef. Talk about a meat doctorate. [via Girlhacker]...
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A year and a half ago, Mike Sula of the Chicago Reader embarked on a project. The Whole Hog Project would follow three mulefoot pigs (Edna, Erma, and Endive) from birth (on a Wisconsin farm) to death (at a slaughterhouse) to an afterlife (at Chicago's Blackbird restaurant). The hairy oinkers, known for having uncloven hooves like mules, would be spotlighted in a fancy six-course dinner. "I've never seen my food walking around before," his friend and and videographer throughout the project, Mike Gebert of Sky Full of Bacon, admitted. Why were they putting themselves through this? Mulefoot pigs are an endangered American breed that, two years ago, only had 200 to their name. While eating an endangered animal seems...
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Illustration for a child's book, "Peter and the Moon" Story and Pictures (32 in color) by Jan Balet—not yet published. November 1946 Paul Lukas, of Uni Watch fame forwarded this awesome illustration to me. (Best children's book illustration ever? Quite possibly," he says.) He in turn got it from a friend. It appears to be from some sort of 1946 promo of a book yet to be published at the time. I can't find any mention on the web of Peter and the Moon in connection to Jan Balet, so who's to say if it ever appeared on shelves—or is so far out of print that it doesn't appear online. Balet appears to have hit his stride in the...
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Editor's note: I just want to take a moment here to introduce this post, and then I'll let you have at it. On Fridays, we'll be featuring Southern Foodways items, from Melissa Hall of the Southern Foodways Alliance. The SFA is an organization based in Oxford, Mississippi, that "documents and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the American South." This is the first in the series. Dig in! —Adam Immigration is in the news and working its way in to the consciousness of thinking eaters everywhere. The reality: Much of the food we enjoy comes to us through the labor of immigrants—on the farm and in the kitchen. Much of the recent political debate centers on the arrival or deportation...
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A couple months ago, we commissioned filmmaker
George Motz to go filmmakin' for us. Today, he sends us this piece, which details
a trip to the butcher to get some freshly ground beef for—what else?—hamburgers. (He is George "
Hamburger America" Motz, after all.)
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