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Whole Foods Butchers Train for 1,920 Hours First
they could condense it down to a 1-year training program if they had the butchers train 40 hours a week, eh?
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
baked brie with caramalized onions
What Jean-Georges Pastry Chef Johnny Iuzzini Will Not Eat
Implicit assumption: female reproductive organs are a-okay.
Whole Foods Butchers Train for 1,920 Hours First
I've love to train as a butcher and I live in Austin, the headquarters of Whole Foods. Unfortunately, they've laid people off nationwide and aren't hiring anyone now. There are some meat-cutting schools; there is one in Phoenix I'm looking at. The others are: two in Oklahoma, one in Utah, one in Michigan, one in Wisconsin, one in Puerto Rico, and a couple in Canada. I really think locally produced meat will be a market in the future. Now if I can just figure out how to enter that market.
Whole Foods Butchers Train for 1,920 Hours First
Wow! That makes the number of credit hours I am putting in for my M.S. look rather pitiful.
Whole Foods Butchers Train for 1,920 Hours First
The article and item above specifically lists that the order is: clean-up, counter, then actual butchering, so you could be talking to someone who is still an apprentice at the counter. But it probably entirely depends on what their staff make-up is at the time... full butchers probably work the counter too when needed (customers first!).
Whole Foods Butchers Train for 1,920 Hours First
@Barry Foy: I've had similar experiences at Whole Foods -- like when I asked for pork belly, and the guy confusedly picked up pieces of pork shoulder and other cuts until I spotted it myself and pointed. Maybe the people who actually run the meat counter are earlier in their training, and the butchers are in back?
Whole Foods Butchers Train for 1,920 Hours First
It would be nice if food specific (fish markets, butcher shops, produce stores) markets trained the employees for a while. I recently was at my fish market looking for some tiny scallops for some cheviche and the man pulled a bag from the freezer and insisted it was the scallops, I knew it was langosteen, and he thought he would argue a bit. I told him I would gladly take that for the price of the scallops. (that would have been great in my cheviche) Just then the store owner came in and said I was correct. The employee was a bit embarassed that I was right. Obviously he needed more training.
Whole Foods Butchers Train for 1,920 Hours First
That's a pretty impressive number, but what matters more may be the stage of training achieved by the butcher helping you at any given time. Maybe it was just a fluke, but when I recently approached a WF meat counter and asked whether they sold suet, the first response I got was, "What's that?" I didn't exactly get the feeling I was in the hands of someone with 2,000 hours of butcher training.
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Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
I love to make either veggie trays or meat and cheese trays with assorted crackers
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Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
a cheese ball and crackers for pleasing most
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
Variations on shrimp cocktail, guacamole dip or crab dip. If there are children present plan on cocktail weenies in barbeque sauce.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
I make a delicious shrimp dip. It even won my daughter an award at a 4-H cooking contest. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
OMG! This book looks amazing! I love veggies and homemade dip!
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Pigs-in-a-blanket and sausage cheese balls.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
hummus and halved thick 'cuke slices. Yum!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
I love a warm tortillla chip and a huge taco salad to dip in.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
Spicy and Sweet Bar nuts form Union Square Cafe Cookbook
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
I love potato chips with sour cream and onion dip!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
crackers and cheese :)
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Buffalo wings garrettsambo@aol.com
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
I love homemade salsa and taco chips!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
Love goat cheese on Italian bread drizzled with olive oil and cook under the broiler until the cheese is melted and the bread is toasted golden brown.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
My son loves to make pickle wraps for our get togethers: baby dills with a vegetable cream cheese spread all wrapped with thinly sliced turkey pastrami.
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they could condense it down to a 1-year training program if they had the butchers train 40 hours a week, eh?