The Meat Hook Meat Book: Buy Butcher and Cook Your Way to Better Meat

About this book

Buying large unbutchered pieces of meat from a local farm or butcher shop means knowing where and how your food was raised and getting meat that is more reasonably priced. It means getting what you want not just what a grocery store puts out for saleand tailoring your cuts to what you want to cook not the other way around. For the average cook ready to take on the challenge The Meat Hook Meat Book is the perfect guide: equal parts cookbook and butchering handbook it will open readers up to a whole new worldstart by cutting up a chicken and soon youll be breaking down an entire pig creating your own custom burger blends and throwing a legendary barbecue (hint: it will include The Man Steakthe be-all and end-all of grilling one-upmanshipand a cooler full of ice-cold cheap beer). This first cookbook from meat maven Tom Mylan co-owner of The Meat Hook in Williamsburg Brooklyn is filled with more than 60 recipes and hundreds of photographs and clever illustrations to make the average cook a butchering enthusiast. With stories that capture the Meat Hook experience even those who havent shopped there will become fans.