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Crossing Cultures
  • May 9, 2014
Crossing Cultures

Every year for the past decade the Heritage Foods USA crew takes a bunch of chefs on a tour of the slaughter facility and farms that we work with in Kansas. What is most remarkable about the experience each time is witnessing the crossing of cultures: chefs mostly from the coasts who work at some of the best restaurants in the country meet, greet and share a meal and drinks with farmers and processors from the Midwest who raise the best meats in the country on their farms.

What Separates Heritage Chickens From the Rest of the Pack?
  • Apr 25, 2014
What Separates Heritage Chickens From the Rest of the Pack?

What really separates Heritage Breeds of chicken from the rest of the pack, and why is it so important to help preserve breed diversity? What is most remarkable about the chicken is that every one of the approximately 12 billion that populate the planet earth are all descended from the Red junglefowl (gallus gallus) of southern Asia.

The History Behind the Farm Tour!
  • Apr 18, 2014
The History Behind the Farm Tour!

This May the Heritage team will continue an almost decade long tradition of visiting its family of farms with chefs from some of the great restaurants that we sell to on a weekly basis.