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NEWS ABOUT: butcher

butcher stories: 6 news summaries

 Butchers: Sex Symbols 
 of the Food World 

A once dying art comes back with a vengeance

Jul 8, 09 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Butchering, once a dying art, is coming back thanks to the demand for local meat—and a new generation of butchers, full of machismo, is emerging. “Think about it. What’s sexy? Dangerous is sometimes sexy, and they are generally big guys with knives who are covered in blood,... More »

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meat • butcher • Jay-ZTV • food trends

Cow Cheats Death in NYC Slaughterhouse Breakout

Heifer hotfoots it through New York City streets after bolting from butchers

May 7, 09 2:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 350-pound heifer made a successful run for its life from a New York City slaughterhouse yesterday, the New York Daily News reports. The fugitive was chased by cops—and a butcher—through city streets for an hour before it was cornered and forced into a police horse trailer. City... More »

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New York City • cows • slaughterhouse • butcher

Wayward Bull Steers
Into Supermarket

Where's the beef?

Apr 26, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A wayward bull nearly locked horns with employees as it slipped through sliding glass doors and raced up aisles in a supermarket in Ireland, reports the Guardian. The animal, which escaped from a nearly outdoor market, butted a shopping cart that workers used to try to corral him, and chased... More »

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beef • meat • bulls • Ireland • supermarket • animal • butcher

Buffalo Restaurant Busted While Butchering Deer

Inspector finds Chinese restaurant's crew chopping up deer carcass

Oct 28, 08 5:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - An inspector has shut down a Chinese restaurant after finding its workers butchering a deer on the premises, the Buffalo News reports. Health officials, who arrived at the restaurant after a tip, aren't sure if the animal was hunted or roadkill—or what the China King had planned for the... More »

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food safety • restaurant • deer • roadkill • Buffalo • butcher


 Where's the Beef?
 Being Butchered 
 in the Kitchen 

To get the best cuts and top quality, more chefs go DIY

Oct 1, 08 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brooklyn eatery Marlow & Sons gets its pork by the pig and beef by the half-ton steer, and it's not alone in its whole-hog approach. A growing number of restaurants are sidestepping industrial meat all together, instead butchering entire carcasses right on the premises. There's some of the old "... More »

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beef • meat • Brooklyn • restaurant • pig • locally grown food • butcher

GLOSSIES

Would-Be Butcher Tackles Meaty Issues

Dealing with people as important as wielding cleaver, writer finds

Aug 28, 08 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tom Chiarella had the perfect customer-butcher relationship—the shop near his home gave him good meat and good advice. But he wanted more. He wanted, as he writes in Esquire, to live on the other side of the counter, "to be a guy with answers." So his Indianapolis... More »

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meat • Esquire • Tom Chiarella • butcher

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