[Sca-cooks] "new cuts of beef" -- P.S.:

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:43 PM, I wrote:

> I agree on the local cooking classes (for all I know, some high-end  
> butcher shops and fine groceries may offer them occasionally).

Doing a Google search for something like "basic butchering classes"  
turns up things like this hit from CraigsList:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cls/1145840436.html

Unfortunately, while this happens to be pretty local for me (I gather  
it's in one of the stalls in the Essex Street Market in Manhattan,  
which is basically an ancient, cavernous railroad depot which was  
converted into an indoor ethnic market decades ago), I'm not sure  
where you are located. But if you're lucky, there may be a local  
equivalent.

There are also some good books specifically on meat cutting and  
cookery on Amazon and elsewhere.

Adamantius






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when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
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