Category Archives: Butchery

Chicken Primal Cuts

By Emilia | Published: April 15, 2013

Video: Watch Melissa Clark cut up a whole chicken which saves you money at the store and help you make stock, via NYT.

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Farm Transparency v. Farm Secrecy

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 11, 2013

A foie gras farmer feeding her ducks. Photo by Michael Ruhlman.

A foie gras farmer feeding her ducks during the brief period of gavage. The ducks at the bottom of the photo showed no signs of illness or discomfort (they were quite merry, actually, if that's possible). Photo by Michael Ruhlman.

Last summer, on assignment for Condé Nast Traveler, I visited a farm that raises ducks for foie gras, driven there along harrowing roads in southwestern France by Kate Hill. I'd never seen the practice, vilified in America, of force-feeding ducks and, being in the land of foie gras and confit de canard, I had to see for myself. The farm, Souleilles, run by Yves and Geneviève Boissière, is wide, wide open in the town of Frespech. The husband and wife were warm and welcoming and ...

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Ham: Butcher & Larder Style

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 3, 2013

Rob Levitt of owner and head butcher of Chicago's the Butcher & Larder. Photos by Huge Galores

Rob Levitt, owner and head butcher of Chicago's The Butcher & Larder.
Photos by Huge Galdones.

Say you have a whole ham and your wife, named Donna, doesn't want the thing hanging in your closet for a year, drying out for prosciutto. Or you live in a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan and don't have a wife named Donna but you also don't have a closet, let alone a drying room. Or you have a whole ham but do not have a holiday dinner to prepare and fourteen people to feed. Such is usually the case, in fact, so what do you do with a whole ham? I get this question all the time. The answer is that you break it down into smaller, ...

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Chicken Sausage

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: March 29, 2013

Chicken sausages. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Homemade chicken sausages. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Today my Friday cocktail will be a daiquiri here in Palm Beach. Or you could instead sit down with a Lagunitas IPA and a few homemade chicken sausages; this recipe originally appears in Charcuterie.  

Chicken Sausage with Basil and Tomatoes

  • 3 1⁄2 pounds/1.5 kilograms boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cubed
  • 1 1⁄2 pounds/675 grams pork back fat, cubed, diced into 1-inch pieces
  • 3 tablespoons/40 grams kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon/3 grams freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 1⁄2 teaspoons/9 grams minced garlic
  • 4 tablespoons/24 grams tightly packed chopped fresh basil
  • 1⁄2 cup/100 grams fresh diced roma (plum) tomatoes
  • 1⁄4 cup/60 grams diced sun-dried tomatoes
  • 1⁄4 cup/60 milliliters red wine vinegar, chilled
  • 1⁄4 cup/60 milliliters extra virgin olive oil
  • 1⁄4 cup/60 milliliters dry red wine, chilled
  • 10 feet/3 meters hog casings, soaked in tepid water for at ...

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Is Meat Safe

By Emilia | Published: December 3, 2012

Livestock near oil and gas drilling areas maybe contained farmers, via Civil Eats.

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