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How to Get an Education in Meat
When one Brooklyn chef was dissatisfied with the available meat offerings, he looked to a small, one-year-old company based in Pennsylvania for delicious, humanely slaughtered animals with signature flavor profiles.
This Dutch Christmas Tradition Was Designed to Boost the Meat Industry
In the 70s, the Netherlands consumed more cheese than meat. That's why the Dutch Meat Office looked to two culinary trendsetters to revolutionize the meat industry with a cooking device that serves up gnome-sized dinner portions you'll find at every...
How Will the Scottish Referendum Affect Food Prices?
History will be made tomorrow when the people of Scotland vote for or against becoming an independent country. But how would becoming independent affect day-to-day food prices?
How-To: Make Fried Lamb Riblets
Bestia's own butcher, Alia Zane, teaches us how to make the most of our rack of lamb leftovers by making the ultimate snack—fried riblets—with a zesty yogurt dipping sauce.
You Should Be Cooking with Blood
For those of us who aren't vampires, blood is inherently sensationalist and a challenge to our perceptions of cooking, but it's both wonderful to eat in restaurants and a great tool to use in home cooking.
In Cairo’s ‘Garbage City,’ Illegal Pig Farming Is Coming Back
Thanks to a swine flu scare five years ago, Hosni Mubarak's government culled most of Egypt's pig population. But even though pork farming is still illegal, a few bold farmers are attempting to reform the industry altogether.
Killing Endangered Tigers, Just to Watch Them Die
Police broke up a ring of businessmen and officials in China who electrocuted at least 10 endangered tigers simply to witness their deaths.
Don't Massage My Meat
Everything you know about Wagyu beef, the most expensive steak in the world, is probably false. Here's the real story behind the fancy cow that supposedly gets wasted on beer after a daily massage.
Meet the Taxidermist Who Eats Her Subjects
Beth Beverly is a taxidermist who is taking things one step further than most of her peers by killing and eating (some of) the animals that she stuffs with a little help from YouTube.
Meet the Taxidermist Who Eats Her Subjects
Beth Beverly is a taxidermist who is taking things one step further than most of her peers by killing and eating (some of) the animals that she stuffs with a little help from YouTube.
This Slaughterhouse Mural Is Really, Really Creepy
On the walls of a sketchy pork-processing plant in Los Angeles, a massive mural was painted that illustrates the joys of slicing up pigs for food. Perhaps the creepiest part is that, on the high wall of the house where hot dogs are cured, the mural...
Brooklyn Butchers
Maybe you've noticed that everybody is really into eating pig flesh again. Lamb, too. Also duck, elk, quail, and even bunny. This stuff is all over new menus in Brooklyn right now.