Meat on Shine

The Best Cookbooks of 2009

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Our top cookbook picks—including titles by Thomas Keller, Marcus Samuelsson, and Michael Psilakis—make for perfect gift-giving this holiday season

It's a daunting task to choose the best cookbooks in any given year. To pore through hundreds of titles and come up with a list of just…

Medium-Rare Pork: Delicious or Dangerous?

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This spectacular Roasted Salt- and Spice-Packed Pork Loin got us thinking about the proper cooking temperature for pork. Long gone are…

Q&A With Julie Powell, Author of Cleaving and Julie and Julia

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Just in case you've been living under a culinary pop culture rock and somehow missed the obsession with Julie and Julia, the movie starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child, Julie Powell…

A Meat-Lover's Guide to Gift Giving

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Get juicy and give the gift of real or referenced meat this holiday season. If you have folks in your life who consider bacon next to godliness, scoff at the idea of a salad, or prefer their steak with a side of more steak, serve them up any one of these meat-tastic gifts and…

A Local Take on Supply and Demand

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The demand for grass-fed meat, poultry and dairy products is growing daily; unfortunately, supply sometimes cannot keep up.

It’s not that there aren’t enough small farmers raising quality cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys. Instead, the number (or lack thereof) of slaughterhouses is…

4 Ways to Substitute Turkey in Common Recipes

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1. Meatballs, Prepared Healthier Make a healthy appetizer by using ground turkey to make meatballs instead of the standard, ground beef or sausage. Meatballs are easy to make. Just add an egg and a handful of breadcrumbs for each package of ground turkey that you use. Season the…

5 Healthy After School Snacks

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By Heather Rutherford Healthy after school snacks are an important part of a child's day. The USDA suggests that children between the ages of six and twelve should eat at least two of the following items each day after school in their after school snacks: dairy, meat, fruit or vegetables…

The Weekly Skinny: All the healthy news you need (11-6-09)

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It's yet another case of contaminated ground beef. This time, two deaths may be linked to the meat. FatFighterTV has a look at this story and other diet and fitness headlines making news this week.

Proof that Al Gore is wrong

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Suppose that those whom you loved most in the world were slated to be horribly tortured and brutally killed. Now suppose that all you have to do to stop this hideous occurrence is to stop eating meat. Would you do it?

Al Gore claims we are all going to die from Global Warming…

BBQ Meat Muffins

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This is a fun recipe that is great for parties. Make them ahead of time and reheat in the oven just before your guests arrive. They always disappear. My husband calls it a meal in one.

BBQ Meat Muffins

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