Whole Beast Butchery

Written by Lee King

Take some DIY fever toss is a mania for quality and you have a revival of old school butchery! Artisan cooks whose make regular trips to their favorite farmers markets are buying up meat from small farms in butchery sized portions. Dubbed a ‘rock star butcher’ by the NYT, Ryan Farr is a self taught meat expert and chef from San Francisco who now demystifies the entire butchery process through 500 step-by-step photos, great recipes for key cuts of meat and a heads up the best way of handling meat as well as the tools and techniques to use. Whole Beast Butchery ($25) is a first class visual manual to let everyday cooks into the tricks of butchery trade.