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Eating Locally
Posted by Erica Jones on
Sourcing locally produced meats, vegetables, eggs and products is part of our core business principles at Vincentia Butchery; there are so many reason to do this:
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Ask A Butcher…About Dry-Aging
Posted by Erica Jones on
Is Dry-Aged Beef really that different to ordinary beef? Is it worth the cost? Is it better than normal beef? Wonder no more....
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Ask A Butcher…About Sulphites (Or our replacement for them…)
Posted by Erica Jones on
Ah yes. Preservatives. The consumption of, and the addition to food is a vexed issue. (vexed is such a GREAT word!… 🙂) We thought we’d shed some light around their use… What are sulphites? Sulphites are naturally occurring minerals with a long history of use in foods. (They have been used for centuries by the ancient Greeks and Romans to preserve wine). They naturally occur in some foods but are widely used as an additive to prevent microbial spoilage and preserve colour. The following is a list of products they are currently found in, in Australia: cordials, juice, fruit juice...
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A Soapbox Moment… Why we SHOULD think of animals AS meat
Posted by Erica Jones on
We’d go as far to say that only thinking of meat AS a product is one of the reasons we are in the current mess of caged animals, grain-fed beef and cruelly reared pork...
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