Whole Beast Butchery

Covering pork, beef, and lamb, this title teaches what the fashionable butchers already know - the cuts and where they come from, what they look like in whole and how they come off the animal and get broken down into individual cuts. It includes a section on tools, techniques and handling. Artisan cooks who are familiar with their farmers market are now buying small farm raised meat in butcher-sized portions. Dubbed a rock star butcher by the New York Times, San Francisco chef and self-taught meat expert Ryan Farr demystifies the butchery process with 500 step-by-step photographs, master recipes for key cuts, and a primer on tools, techniques, and meat handling. This visual manual is the first to teach by showing exactly what butchers know; whether cooks want to learn how to turn a primal into familiar and special cuts or to simply identify everything in the case at the market.