Stephanie Izard has a new video about visiting Allen Brothers, which is better than the first two, if like me, you define better as “less clowning around, more actual chef skills and food related content.” It’s an interesting visit… though I have to think there are scarier parts of Allen Brothers they could have shown us. Oh well, I guess she has her niche (cute and perky) and I have mine (blood dripping from eyeless carcasses)….
(By the way, Ms. Izard doesn’t especially need me touting her videos, but others might benefit from the exposure, so consider this a standing invitation to send me any food videos you’ve made that I can embed (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) I’ll happily consider them for posting. Email Mikegebert roundthingy gmail dottie commie, or post a comment.)
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March 19th, 2009 at 11:38 am
What I was surprised by when I visited AB was the fact that there really weren’t any “scarier parts.” This is indicative of the neat and tidy direction that industry has taken meat production.
Your “blood dripping from eyeless carcasses” video shows how some chefs are saying, “no guts no glory.”
March 19th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Yeah, I suppose it’s all cryovacked primals shipped from where it was raised. Years ago I did a brochure for a meatpacking company in central Kansas and for the shoot, they had guys hacking stuff apart fresh as it could be, then hauling it upstairs to a makeshift photo studio in the conference room so the pictures could be as blood-red as possible.