Field Guide to Meat

Field Guide to Meat

How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Meat, Poultry, and Game Cut

About the Book

This comprehensive field guide to identifying and selecting more than 200 different cuts and kinds of meatfrom beef and poultry to game and cured meat—is an essential resource for home cooks and chefs.
 
This practical guide includes more than 200 full-color photographs of cuts of beef, veal, pork, lamb, game, and poultry as well as more than 100 different kinds of cured meats and sausages. Cross-referenced with the photographs are in-depth descriptions of the cuts, including basic history, location in the animal, characteristics, information on how to choose the cut, and flavor affinities. Step-by-step preparation directions tell you whether the item is best marinated, braised, grilled, roasted, or pan-seared.
 
Trips to the butcher’s aisle will no longer be intimidating, and you’ll never end up with a cut that’s too tough for dinner.
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Field Guide Series

Field Guide to Stains
Field Guide to Gestures
Field Guide to Produce
Field Guide to Tools
Field Guide to Meat
Field Guide to Herbs & Spices
Field Guide to Seafood
Field Guide to Knitting
Field Guide to Luck
Field Guide to Candy
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Aliza Green
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