The Butcher’s Guide To Well-Raised Meat is a unique book—equal parts guide, memoir, manifesto, and reference— which shares everything anyone needs to know about well-raised meat including: butchery and cooking techniques, a tools primer, history lessons, advice on how to talk to your farmer, and (fun!) questions to drive your conventional butcher crazy.

Readers will learn what the most sustainable cuts of meat are, how to host a driveway pig roast, and even how to break down an entire lamb—all with accompanying step-by-step photographs. The Butcher’s Guide includes tasty recipes and essential methods, like how to cook the perfect steak, along with insider industry knowledge and resources. The book also helps to decode misleading industry terminology and will help consumers make smarter, healthier purchases that can change what’s wrong with meat in America today.

With 35 full-color photographs emphasizing technique, 50 black-and-whites, numerous line drawings, and a dozen recipes, The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat is the ultimate guide to good meat.

Planet Home: Conscious Choices for Cleaning and Greening the World You Care About Most

Living consciously in the most important environment of all—your home. From the cofounder of Seventh Generation, the most trusted brand in environmentally friendly household products, comes this indispensable guide to maintaining absolutely everything in the home in a natural, nontoxic way. Jeffrey Hollender—with Alexandra Zissu—leads you through each room of the house with straightforward advice, comprehensive checklists, quick tips, and unparalleled resources while revealing the hidden repercussions of daily routines that most of us take for granted. From improving air quality in your bedroom to avoiding mildew in the bathroom, from sourcing local or organic food to safely laundering your clothes, Planet Home offers invaluable information for making conscious decisions for your family, your neighbors, and our shared planet home.

With additional information on power, garbage, and recycling, air quality, and community activism, this book goes a step further to describe how any household is part of a much larger system. Planet Home offers a unique, comprehensive, educational, and easy approach to helping you and your family lead healthier lives as we collectively protect and maintain our shared resources for many years to come.

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