Bon Appetit: Know Your Butcher
You may already request pork chops cut 2 inches thick or prefer your lamb rib roast Frenched—but that isn’t all the mighty butcher can do with his (or, ever more frequently, her) cleaver.
More and more sustainable butcher shops, dedicated to breaking down whole animals, are opening their doors across the country, from Fleisher's in Brooklyn to Lindy & Grundy in Los Angeles. And customers are once again learning the lingo, quickly graduating from simple requests to more complicated procedures.