A word of warning to vegetarians: Run. Hide. Well, at least avert your eyes.
Because this is an ode to meat and to the neighborhood butcher, that near-vanished breed who slices, dices and serves it up fresh to San Diego’s unabashed beef-eaters and other assorted carnivores.
Once every neighborhood had a local, Mom-and-Pop butcher shop, but chain grocery stores and consumer preference for one-stop shopping did away with most of them.
Yet a hardy few remain and, here and there, more neighborhood butcher shops are springing up to cater to local chefs, a new generation of Food Network-inspired home cooks, and other assorted foodies.
“The butcher shop never really died,” said Stan Glenn, meat supervisor for San Diego butcher shops Siesel's Meats on Ashton Street and Iowa Meat Farms on Mission Gorge Road, “We’re like houses of ill-repute – there’s at least one in every town.”
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