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  VIDEO: The Good Slaughter: A Proud Meat Cutter Shares His Processing Floor

  foodcurated.com, Local Livestock, Local Processing, New York City

  “My hope is that my children will have the same passion for this as I do…” Meet Larry Althiser, the owner and head meat cutter for Larry’s Custom Meats in Hartwick, NY, a small farming community in the Northern Catskills. Larry takes pride in his slaughterhouse. He’s been butchering and processing animals for over 30 years, learning through hard work his philosophy on the right way to slaughter animals so we can eat. I spent two days upstate with Larry [...]

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  VIDEO: Building Artisan Slaughterhouses to Feed the Demand for Grass-fed Meat

  foodcurated.com, Local Distribution, Local Livestock, Local Processing, New York City

  “Meet Chris Harmon, a local farmer and the Executive Director of CADE, The Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship. CADE is a non-profit organization working to help build the necessary infrastructure so that farmers can survive and thrive in upstate New York. More and more people are interested in knowing where their food comes from. And with local grass-fed meat in high demand along the East Coast, many farmers are looking towards repurposing their unused dairy land to raise animals. [...]

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  VIDEO: The Re-education of Tofu: Hodo Soy Beanery

  Eat Local, foodcurated.com, Healthy Eating, Local Processing, SF Bay Area, Videos

  “I think a lot of Asian restaurants actually cook with not the best quality tofu. The reason for that is, people don’t understand tofu and therefore are not willing to pay the premium for it.” Meet Minh Tsai, the founder & tofu master behind Hodo Soy Beanery in Oakland, California. Minh is a self-titled “Tofu Ambassador”, a man on a mission to re-educate Americans on the taste and texture of real, authentic, traditional tofu from Asia – not the chalky, [...]

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