Burger Stomper

Burger Stomper is an inventive burger prep and grilling tool ideal for the start of summer grilling. It forms the perfect burger every time to create uniform, ideally sized patties just the right size for the bun, with attachments to create both six ounce burgers and two ounce sliders. It is…

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Secrets to Slow-Cooked Pork Perfection

There's nothing better than a juicy, flavorful rack of pork ribs hot off the grill. Whether saucy or spicy, wet or dry, ribs are a versatile pork cut that can take on many of your favorite flavors

Food-Cured Meats

Nearly 30 years ago, a handful of enterprising Vermonters realized they could do more with milk than just sell it.

Butchering trends bring fresh, meaty opportunities

Super Bowl Sunday surely is one of the meatiest eating days of the year. But it's still somewhat surprising the lengths some people will go to push their game day feed over the top. Last year, for example, some enthusiastic carnivores went as far as to build football arena replicas out of de…

Butchering trends bring fresh, meaty opportunities

Some recent trends on the butchering side of things are offering whole new ways to up your meat game, so to speak.

Sword Served: Fogo de Chao carving a dining niche for a decade

Northwest Indiana diners know all about the entertaining and appetizing ambiance of Brazilian steakhouses.

Hoosier and German in Jasper and Huntingburg

A while back I wrote a book titled Jasper and Huntingburg, about two distinctively different but disintinctly Southern Indiana towns. Huntington might best be known as the setting for several movies including “A League of Their Own” and “The Rain” with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater. Ja…

Become a vegan to combat animal cruelty

Extreme drought has doubled the cost of animal feed. Undercover investigations documented male chicks suffocated in plastic garbage bags or ground to death, their female counterparts crammed for life in tiny wire-mesh cages, pigs clobbered with metal pipes, and assorted farm animals skinned …

Consumers, retailers get burned on beef prices

The weather may be perfect for throwing a steak or burger on the grill, but high beef prices mean consumers and retailers are the ones being burned.

Meat prices

Mike Cantu, assistant meat manager at the Taft Street PayLow in Merrillville makes sure the meat case is stocked. Don Weiss, president of the WiseWay/PayLow grocery chain, said consumers are buying a little less by weight or buying more economical cuts to combat rising prices

Meat prices

Mike Cantu, assistant meat manager at the Taft Street PayLow in Merrillville makes sure the meat case is stocked. Don Weiss, president of the WiseWay/PayLow grocery chain, said consumers are buying a little less by weight or buying more economical cuts to combat rising prices