From the monthly archives:

May 2009

How to Choose Your Burger Meat

May 8, 2009

It’s one thing to talk about artisan steaks. It’s another to understand artisan burgers. If I can give you any advice: Do not buy burger meat from your grocer. The reason cited most often is risk of food poisoning. Please allow me to offer another reason to avoid grocery store ground beef and patties: They [...]

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Pork, The Other Red Meat (TM)

May 5, 2009

I’m picky enough about pork that I’ve by and large stopped eating it. The only pork available in my market is indoor raised, bland, and flabby. It has a grayish color, too, or maybe a sort of dirty white or light dusty pink. In my quest to find the secrets to truly outstanding, clean, humanely [...]

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Low Stress Food Tastes Better

May 1, 2009

When a tree suffers stress, you can see it in its rings. Whether drought, disease, or fire, times of stress are permanently etched and visible to the naked eye. Have you ever thought to think the same might happen to our food? It does. Stress can permanently, and negatively, influence the taste and texture of [...]

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