Nota Bene: Recommendations
Italian Ingredients
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Nota Bene: Recommendations
Meat, Poultry and Seafood
Kitchen Supplies
Here are some excellent recognized information resources and product sources for meats, poultry and seafood. Many chefs and top restaurants use these purveyors. Most companies sell at retail and wholesale, have online catalogues and will ship.
If you have a favorite resource OR you are the source for quality fish, meats and poultry, please let your fellow cooks know. Simply write the company name and website or telephone number in the Comment box below and we will add your recommendation to this list.
Meats and Poultry:
www.bobochicken.com Some of the best chicken I have ever tasted. Period. Black/red feather chickens, slow-growing breed. White feather chickens, silky bantams, quail, guinea hens, partridge, rabbits. Brooklyn, NY.
www.brandtbeef.com The True Natural. Superior quality beef. Unusual butcher cuts, clean and pure-tasting makes you feel satisfied not heavy. Single family-owned, sustainable beef. If the web address doesn’t link, Dean and Deluca sells Brandt beef. Brawley, CA.
www.creekstonefarms.com Natural and premium Black Angus beef products, supermarket and food service industries. Arkansas City, KS.
www.fleishers.com Pastured beef, 100% grass-fed beef when in season, and grass-fed, grain-finished beef year-round, all cuts. Pork, lamb, sausage, poultry. Butcher training. Kingston, NY.
www.heritagefoodsusa.com More than 50 independent farmers, producers and processors work together to make this company a highly-recommended wholesale and retail source for pork, beef, lamb, rabbit, Heritage turkeys, Piemontese beef, Berkshire Pork. Humane conditions, pasture-raised, no antibiotics are promoted. Brooklyn, NY.
www.jamisonfarm.com Lamb, all cuts plus sausage. Raised in the USA, tastes like delicate European lamb. Latrobe, PA.
www.jidorichicken.com Type of free-range chicken common in Japan, three varieties raised on small farms in the LA area. 100% vegetarian diets without antibiotics. Los Angeles, CA.
www.nimanranch.com More than 650 independent American farmers and ranchers provide beef, pork, lamb, poultry to Niman Ranch. Humanely raised on sustainable U.S. family farms and ranches. All natural, no antibiotics, no added hormones, all vegetarian feeds. Leader in Third Party Verification program. Alameda, CA.
Sustainable Seafood:
www.blueocean.org/seafood/seafood-guide Sustainable seafood. Valuable information on species of fish, habitat, fishing methods and harvesting. Online course for culinary students and chefs.
www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx Monterey Bay Aquarium. Consumer’s guide to sustainable seafood. Download a Seafood Watch Pocket Guide, by state and region.
www.msc.org Marine Stewardship Council. Global organization working with fisheries, seafood companies, scientists, conservation groups and the rest of us to promote the best environmental choice for our seafood.
