Glorious beef : the LaFrieda Family and the evolution of the American meat industry /
"It all began when Pat LaFrieda's great-grandfather Anthony LaFrieda decided to pack up and move his family from Italy to New York in search of a better life, setting up the family's first retail butcher shop in 1922 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Almost one hundred years later, Pat LaFrieda,...
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: From the farm. The growers ; The feed effect ; Harvest time ; The importance of grading, labeling, and traceability
- Part two: Through the meat purveyor. A butcher's road to meat purveyordom ; An education and a dream ; Pack, deliver, grow, grow, grow ; The big leagues
- Part three: To your table. What's the beef with eating meat? ; Bringing beef back to its glory ; Recipes: cooked to perfection
- Epilogue: a twist of fate: plans, a pandemic, and new opportunities.