OK OK-so it's not the type of meat market I am used to where scantily clad women and leering men provide the visual entertainment. It was however a real visual experience.
As promised, these are the meat pictures from the Paris market. They are gross to us-but really, what a tribute to the animal. I remember my grandmother slaughtering her own chickens and using every bit of that chicken. Here we throw out 1/2 of the usable animal because we don't like thinking about the reality of eating an animal.
I say if you slaughter it-use it! I try to use as much of an animal as possible-being one of those "gross" people that likes to cook the neck and innards and has been known to eat tongue, pickled pigs feet and any other number of things that gross out the masses of American consumers. How sad. Not only are these cuts delicious and nutritious--but they are also a better way to respect the animal. Oh well-I doubt I will ever win that battle-but hopefully I have given you something to think about and one day you may try to use more of the animal than just those parts nicely cellophaned in the grocery store.
Enjoy the pictures. I took some of them through the glass cases so I notice there are some reflections....but you get the idea.
Bouffe tout c'il vous plait!
