Meat & Poultry

Circumstances that made meat cheap the past two years did an about-face. Holiday barbecues will be a little more costly this summer. Too many animals and not enough people eating beef and pork was a good combination for consumers but bad for producers. Meat was a bargain; growers floundered. …

There’s something comforting about those huge chunks of chuck roast. It’s a common cut, and yet some of my fondest memories are tied to it, as my grandmother made one killer pot roast. Maybe it’s a primal Pavlovian response, causing a rush of endorphins to my brain upon seeing all that muscle and fat. …

It’s probably no surprise that Sir Paul McCartney, a longtime vegetarian, banned all meat from staff meals on his current world tour. But when Mario Batali starts to push people to eat their vegetables, you know something is happening. …

Higher raw meat costs for packers appears to be a long-term trend as Canadian hog farmers struggle to recover from money-losing operations, the head of a leading Canadian hog processor, Maple Leaf Foods said on Wednesday. …

Sheep pigs are real. And their cured meat goes for a porky $82.99 a pound in Brooklyn. …