Meat & Poultry

A gathering of Vermont food enthusiasts, farmers, chefs and press showed up for a culinary event at Michaels on the Hill Restaurant to celebrate the fine art of butchery and the launch of The Gourmet Butcher: from Farm to Table a unique DVD series that takes viewers through the butchering process from primal cut to gourmet meal. …

Colorado native Jen Johnson loved raising cattle and eating steak, a lifestyle some of her friends at Princeton University found a bit hard to swallow. Ms. Johnson tried winning them over with sheer enthusiasm. But she soon realized she needed help persuading her salad-nibbling sorority sisters to order steaks. So she went back to school to get her MBAMasters of Beef Advocacy. …

With the GLM-E Retail a combination of packaging machine, scales and pricing tool retailers can independently process fresh food even in small preparation spaces and thus flexibly respond to variations in demand. A new 3D applicator makes it possible to apply up to two labels at any desired position of the packaging surface. As the user controls both the packaging machine and the pricing tool via the same touch screen terminal, a higher degree of data consistency and reliability is ensured. Bizerba will launch the system in North America during the year. …

President Barack Obama announced today that a deal has been reached in the longstanding dispute over cross-border trucking with Mexico. The announcement was made during a news conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon. …

National Steak and Poultry continues to grow their national foodservice brokerage network by adding new representatives in each region. The network is comprised 16 representative partners covering 38 states in 6 regions. …