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The Evolution of Butchery in NYC (8:25)
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butchery, where have all the butcher shops gone?, Jake Dickson, visceral elements of butchery, in early 1960's most meat began being cut by highly automated packaging companies, 1843: private butcher shops become legal in NYC, Gustavus Swift transformed NYC's butchering trade, in recent years a new crop of butcher shops are popping up around the city, Marlow and Daughters, the tickler, captain beefheart,The Legalization of Private Butcher Shops in NYC (11:35)
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Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum of American Enterprise, Putting Meat on the American Table, price was the biggest reason why New Yorker's warmed up to non-local meat, meat suddenly cheaper when brought in from Chicago, Jewish kosher law states that meat must be eaten within three days of slaughter, kosher law provided huge stimulus to local meat packaging industry, changing stature of butchers, self-serve meat, boxed beef, all the skilled work is being done by workers on assembly line, butchers now are getting meat that has been boned and cut and no longer requires the preparation skills once needed to be a butcher,Jake Dickson's New Butcher Shop (12:07)
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Dickson's Farmstand Meats: sources whole animals from farms in upstate New York and sells the meat to customers in NYC, how will butcher shop add value to Jake's existing business?, lack of processing facilities in northeast, value-added products, picking up right after slaughter and doing all the processing and packaging thereafter, Dickson's veteran butchers help customer prepare cut according to how they want to prepare meat,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
Episode 64: Barns and Blocks (12:14)
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The Food Seen, Michael Harlan Turkell, Nils Wessel, Brooklyn Butcher Blocks, Cut Brooklyn, New York Times, building a barn, property addiction, barn raising, Sunset Park, tinkering, Portland, Oregon, studio art, art school, installations, sculpture, Julian Schwartz, utilitarianism in art,Art and Utilitarianism (23:02)
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utilitarian, line between art and craft, Knife making, cutting board, planer, butcher blocks, joining, joiner, making cross cuts, Walnut, Cherry, Maple, keeping knives sharp, soft woods, art movements, Tony Smith, Kiki Smith, Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman, Huma Bahbha, Louise Bourgeios, common materials, woodworking equipment, structural integrity, Dada, dadaist,Download MP3 (Full Episode)









