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Carrie Oliver

Blackbird Farm (Grain-Fed) – Marriage Material Beef

August 25, 2010
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Carrie Oliver Rating: Marriage Material Beef™ I love using Twitter to find new great farms and butchers. Photographer David Dadekian (@Dadekian) not only gets credit for introducing me to Blackbird Farm but he’s also our guest steak and burger taster for the day. Based on his notes, I am itching for a trip to Rhode [...]

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Wilcox Angus Rating – Grass-Fed: Gateway Beef

June 27, 2010
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Carrie Oliver Rating: Gateway Beef™ For nearly a year, Artisan Butcher Tracy Smaciarz said I needed to taste Chris Wilcox’s  grass-fed beef. At last, I was lucky to hear the word from Lisa Wilcox that they had some available for me to review. This is a great beef for grass-fed lovers and doubters. Tasting Notes: [...]

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Kobe Beef America Rating – Seductive Date Beef

March 30, 2010
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Carrie Oliver Rating: Seductive Date Beef™ Having this voluptuous grain-fed beef as a dinner partner might leave you a little breathless but you’ll surely remember the experience, especially if you like the mouth-feel of highly marbled beef but not the adventurous flavors of dry-aged beefs. Note: the steaks we tasted ranged from 4 to 7 [...]

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Split Creek Farm Rating – Grace Kelly Beef

March 28, 2010
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Carrie Oliver Rating: Grace Kelly Beef™ This beef was a toss-up between Steakhouse Steak Beef & Grace Kelly Beef. It was sensual & elegant like the actress but also had hints of the nuttiness and chew often found in dry-aged beef at high end steakhouses. This versatile beef can stand by itself but would also [...]

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3 Simple Steps For Better Tasting Steaks

February 17, 2010
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I hear every day from people across North America who want to eat better tasting, humanely raised & handled beef but don’t know where to start.  Here are three simple things that virtually everyone can do. Step #1. Ask your meat cutter or butcher whether he or she carries beef from cattle raised without the [...]

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Coming Soon!

November 28, 2009

Thanks for your patience as we transfer our site to this new theme!  In the meantime, you can visit The Oliver Ranch Company™ to learn about artisan beef and The Artisan Beef Institute™.

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