The everyday meat guide : a neighborhood butcher's advice book

410 Pages·2016·11.72 MB·English

by  Achilleos

TO MY WIFE, DEE DEE, AND OUR
THREE CHILDREN, BARBRA,
BOBBY, AND RAYMOND
And with thanks to Carmine Venezia for opening the door to a great education;
to Jane Dystel and Miriam Goderich of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management
for helping make this book a reality; to Joey and Ralph Corrado of Corrado’s
Market in New Jersey and Master Purveyors and the Solaz family in New York
for providing meat.

Text copyright © 2016 by Ray Venezia.
Photographs copyright © 2016 by Antonis Achilleos.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without written permission from the publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4521-4718-5 (epub, mobi)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Venezia, Ray.
The everyday meat guide : a neighborhood butcher’s advice book / Ray
Venezia with Chris Peterson.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4521-4288-3 (pb)
1. Meat. I. Peterson, Chris, 1961-II. Title.
TX373.V46 2016
641.3'6—dc23
2015008240
Designed by Vanessa Dina
Illustrations by Amanda Sims
Typesetting by Howie Severson
Chronicle Books LLC
680 Second Street
San Francisco, California 94107
www.chroniclebooks.com
INTRODUCTION // 006
MEAT 101 // 008
LEARNING LABEL LINGO 008
MEAT CUTS LINGO 010
BEYOND THE LABEL 012
PRESERVING MOISTURE AND FLAVOR 012
KNIFE KNOW-HOW 012
MEAT AND POULTRY COOKING TEMPERATURES 014
Poultry 016
POULTRY TYPES AND SIZES 019
DETERMINING FRESHNESS 021
BONE-IN OR NOT? 024
HOW TO STORE AND HANDLE POULTRY 024
Duck, Duck, Goose 025
USING THE EXTRAS 026
Ground Poultry (not pictured) 026
Whole Chicken 028
Whole Turkey 029
Whole Leg (also known as Airline Cut) 032
Drumstick 033
Thigh 034
Breast 034
Cutlets 037
Wings 037
Pork 038
Ground Pork (not pictured) 040
SHOULDER 042
Picnic Roast (also known as Pork Picnic Shoulder or Cali) 042
Shoulder Butt (also known as Boston Butt) 043
Pork Neck Bones 044
LOIN 045
Rib End Roast 045
Rib Blade Chops (also known as Rib End Chops) 046
Country-Style Spareribs 046
Pork Loin Roast (also known as Center Loin Roast) 047
Pork Crown Roast 048
Center-Cut Pork Chops 049