Meat & Poultry

Alexandria Boswell has won the first-ever Foster Farms West Coast Chicken Cooking Contest in a heated Final Cook Off held at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in California’s Napa Valley. Boswell and her Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breasts dish beat out more than 2,000 recipes to win the $10,000 grand prize and a one-year supply of Foster Farms fresh chicken. …

Walk up to the counter at Rain Shadow Meats and you may feel like you are entering a bygone era: A shiny white case is packed full of beef, sausages, poultry and pork, the prices and farm of origin hand-scrawled on labels atop each cut. …

No Oktoberfest celebration is complete without smoked sausage, and just in time for the festivities, Hillshire Farm today announced their best “wurst” yet; Hillshire Farm CheddarWurst Smoked Sausage. Adding variety to the traditional smoked sausage flavor, CheddarWurst Smoked Sausage combines real Wisconsin cheddar cheese and natural spices with quality cuts of meat to create unrivaled flavor that is the perfect complement to any fall meal. …

The dry-aged porterhouse served at FireLake restaurant is marked with grill hashes and flecked with spices and herbs. It’s banded by a thick strap of fat and split down the middle with a T-shaped bone. The meat’s tender, juicy interior contrasts its carnitas-like crust, and its flavor is deep, almost concentrated. It’s exactly what you’d expect to find at a world-class steakhouse. Except that it’s pork, not beef. …

THE NEIGHBORHOOD butcher is back. It’s not the uncomplicated, white-aproned figure of our parents’ or grandparents’ era. It’s also not the hot new “rock star butcher” making national headlines for wild tattoos and butchering parties, though Seattle has those, too. …