Butcher Shop

It kind of makes sense when you think about it, but I was still taken aback by the announcement that the launch party for Joseph Shuldiner's new cookbook "Pure Vegan" will be held at Lindy & Grundy . That, of course, is a butcher shop, albeit of a very particular type. Anyway, the party is Aug. 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. It will be very interesting to see what is served. And will the meat cases be full or empty? This is not the time to proselytize, girls. Shuldiner is the founder of the Institute of Domestic Technology, a kind of new-age, back-to-the-roots home ec department.

With Christmas right around the corner and online shopping orders at a close, Angelenos looking to pick up last-minute holiday gifts can find a selection of food gifts made in L.A. at an unexpected place - the neighborhood butcher. Lindy and Grundy , located on North Fairfax Avenue, is stocked with sustainably raised meats for holiday meals, and stocking stuffers, too. The butcher shop carries locally made, artisanal goods including Jennifer Gregori's Crack Caramel small-batch caramels, Elliott Shaffner 's holiday pimiento cheese made from a passed-down family recipe and Gindo's Spice of Life 's fresh pepper sauce containing no preservatives or artificial flavors.

After deliberating for only 80 minutes, a Ventura County jury found a Lancaster man guilty of murder in the slaying of a Moorpark butcher shop employee last year. John Charles Alvez, 23, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting Marco Aurelio Rodriguez. Senior Deputy Dist. Atty. Jim Ellison said he was surprised by how quickly the jury returned from deliberations, but was not alarmed by the verdicts. "The evidence against Mr.

This should be right up Lindy and Grundy 's alley: toy butcher shops for aspiring young butchers from Victorian England. Look at that detail! The butcher's neatly tied apron, the blue scarf tucked around his neck, his knife laid at the corner of the butcher block table, the precision of the cuts. Even the bloody sawdust on the floor. This particular one dates from 1840. I came across the link to these toy butcher shops at the weirdly gruesome and eclectic Morbid Anatomy blog, "surveying the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture.” Always something to learn there, and, of course, I've got the Morbid Anatomy library and museum   on my itinerary next time I'm anywhere near Brooklyn.

A recent Navy investigation has concluded that butchers at Miramar Naval Air Station ground discolored and day-old meat into hamburger and sold it as fresh meat, but investigators found no contaminated or rotten meat or poultry being sold at the base commissary. Rep. Bill Nichols (D-Ala.

To the little girl, going to work with her father felt like visiting a petting zoo, with chickens, ducks, doves and rabbits in cages in the back of the shop. Even as she fed the animals, she knew about the other part of Al Salam Polleria. The part with things like the boiler, the de-featherer and the cutting station. "But I guess, yeah, if you think of it as a butcher shop then that might be weird," said Iman Elrabat-Gabr, now 37. "But the memories I have of it are not a butcher shop, more of a farm.

A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher shop in southern France--the fourth apparent anti-Semitic attack over the weekend--drawing pledges for increased security at Jewish sites and appeals for religious tolerance. No one was hurt in the attack Saturday evening in the town of L'Union, near Toulouse, officials said. The owner of the shop was inside when a gunman fired two shots and sped off in a car, officials said.

It was the discovery of our week in Provence. In fact, it was the discovery of our entire 18 days in London, Paris, Burgundy and Provence. Maison Gouin, in the tiny town of Coustellet, about 20 miles east of Avignon, is a superb butcher shop that has its own wine cellar, its own homemade pastries, a fine selection of cheeses and pasta and a modest and, for Provence, modestly priced (but quite good) restaurant.

Cool alphabet. It's like the visual analogue of a fast-talking argument full of unexpected twists. In L.A., we get to savor all sorts of writing systems--Thai, Chinese, Armenian, even Ethiopian--but we don't often see the jazzy, angular Bengali script. And here it is, right on the outskirts of Koreatown. In English the sign reads "Jafran Royal Kitchen Garden of Bengal"--a name that has an unexpected twist or two itself.

DARIO CECCHINI is in the beef aging room at Harvey Gussman's tiny mid-Wilshire butcher shop. With a connoisseur's eye he inspects the stacks of short loins suspended from the ceiling, carefully examining the color, stroking the surfaces, sniffing. Then a photographer starts taking pictures. Cecchini flashes a maniacal grin, grabs a loin and cradles it like a baby. Then he plants a big kiss on it. If one can be said to ham it up with a piece of beef, Cecchini is doing it.

It kind of makes sense when you think about it, but I was still taken aback by the announcement that the launch party for Joseph Shuldiner's new cookbook "Pure Vegan" will be held at Lindy & Grundy . That, of course, is a butcher shop, albeit of a very particular type. Anyway, the party is Aug. 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. It will be very interesting to see what is served. And will the meat cases be full or empty? This is not the time to proselytize, girls. Shuldiner is the founder of the Institute of Domestic Technology, a kind of new-age, back-to-the-roots home ec department.

To the little girl, going to work with her father felt like visiting a petting zoo, with chickens, ducks, doves and rabbits in cages in the back of the shop. Even as she fed the animals, she knew about the other part of Al Salam Polleria. The part with things like the boiler, the de-featherer and the cutting station. "But I guess, yeah, if you think of it as a butcher shop then that might be weird," said Iman Elrabat-Gabr, now 37. "But the memories I have of it are not a butcher shop, more of a farm.

To the connected diner, it may seem that Erika Nakamura and Amelia Posada arrived in Los Angeles ages ago. The larger-than-life personas behind Lindy & Grundy are practically household names among local foodies, though their butcher shop selling locally sourced, pasture-raised organic meat on Fairfax Avenue has yet to open. This tweeting team of cleaver-wielding butcherettes, as they call themselves, has been tapping into the city's technologically engaged food culture, making the presence of their shop known well before it sells its first beef cheek.

You have to know tradition to break with it. Which is why Fabrizio Di Gianni and Enzo Sanseverino, two old-world Italians full of New World bravado, are turning out such deliciously rebellious food at their new restaurant, 81/2 Taverna in Studio City. Angus beef and foie gras burger, anyone? Born and raised in Turin and Naples, respectively, Di Gianni, 35, and Sanseverino, 34, met in Los Angeles and bonded over a passion for cooking. Di Gianni revered his grandmother's hearth and her intricate sauces, while Sanseverino began serving coffee and pastries at 10 and entered culinary school at 15. "At 13, Enzo started working as a pastry chef, and he ate a lot of pizza," Di Gianni says of his friend's formative years in Naples.

In "Eyes Wide Open," the quietly effective new Israeli film, the love that dare not speak its name is too terrified to even whisper. That's because the two men who are powerfully attracted to each other are members of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, a world where homosexuality is so rigidly taboo that, as director Haim Tabakman has said, it simply does not exist: "It's just an evil urge. It cannot be part of a human being's essence." While there is a certain familiarity to lovers battling against society's hostility and repression, "Eyes Wide Open" makes the situation seem fresh and involving through Tabakman's low-key but confident directing style, convincing acting and, perhaps most surprising, an accurate and respectful treatment of the community that is making these men's lives so unendurable.

Julie Powell's new book is not for the squeamish, in more ways than one. It opens with her in the back of a butcher shop, flecked with blood and reeking of meat. She's busy slicing a raw, slippery liver with a foot-long knife. By the end of the book, another internal organ -- her heart -- has been filleted: Powell dissects the pain caused by her two-year affair with an old college flame that sent her into an emotional tailspin and almost sank her marriage. It's all a bit, well, messy.

Wall's Meats, a butcher shop on North Euclid Street in Anaheim, got its life-size fiberglass steer back Thursday after it was dumped on the grounds of the county courthouse in Fullerton. The owners of the butcher shop, who had offered $100 worth of steaks as ransom for the steer, said they would donate the meat to charity. The statue was stolen from the butcher shop roof Sunday or Monday.

"General store" was an understatement for the turn-of-the-century market in Los Alamitos. Post office, department store and butcher shop, it even added tires to its inventory after the arrival of the auto. The store's weathered facade made it an ideal backdrop for Old West movies. It was featured in the 1919 film "Bond of Blood" starring Al Jennings. Source: "Early Los Alamitos" by the Los Alamitos Museum Assn.

"Buying a Piece of Paris," Ellie Nielsen's account of her quest to find the perfect apartment in the French capital, continues a recent trend in popular travel writing that started with the success of Peter Mayle's books about Provence. This led to the literary subgenre of British expatriates recounting how they bought an old house in the south of France or Italy or Spain and fixed it up.

DARIO CECCHINI is in the beef aging room at Harvey Gussman's tiny mid-Wilshire butcher shop. With a connoisseur's eye he inspects the stacks of short loins suspended from the ceiling, carefully examining the color, stroking the surfaces, sniffing. Then a photographer starts taking pictures. Cecchini flashes a maniacal grin, grabs a loin and cradles it like a baby. Then he plants a big kiss on it. If one can be said to ham it up with a piece of beef, Cecchini is doing it. You don't become the most famous butcher in the world by being shy. Cecchini's butcher shop in Panzano, in the Chianti countryside outside of Florence, is a culinary shrine, drawing gastronomic travelers from all over the world.