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...ducked into an osteria he'd never noticed before: a vaulted medieval cellar jammed with locals sitting at a common table. A man worked an open fire at the back of the room. He carved chops from a huge side of beef lying on a gurney, presented them in butcher paper to each customer for inspection and then fired them one by one, seven minutes on each side. "There was no asking how you like it done," Steves recalls. "That was how it was done...
...many ordinary Alaskans. Among the giants of the Iditarod are five-time champion Rick Swenson; families like the Redington, Seavey and Mackey clans, who have captured multiple championships and together have placed an entrant in every race since the event's inception; and four-time winners Susan Butcher and Martin Buser, who owns the record for the event's fastest recorded time (8 days, 22 hrs. and 46 mins). To prepare for the rigors of the journey, mushers spend months prepping their dogs, who are subject to drug screenings and tracked using collar tags and microchips implanted under the skin...
...photograph of Child’s kitchen, which was moved in its entirety to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. three years before her death in 2004. Two blocks away on Kirkland St., students took a tour of Savenor’s Market, the butcher shop and grocer frequented and made famous by Child. Students went behind-the-scenes at the butchering station, learning about the preparation of the store’s famed meats, which range from the ordinary—chicken and pancetta—to the exotic—llama, black bear...
...also a place where people would gather and socialize,” MacDonald says. “I think society in general doesn’t have time to gather and socialize—people did it in the barber shop, they did it in the butcher shop. Now they plug in at Starbucks and barely have a conversation...
...Travis's case, his owner was forced to call 911, then attack and repeatedly stab him - a cherished pet she had reared for years - with a butcher knife in a desperate attempt to save her friend...