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A Brief History of Heritage Turkeys
  • Sep 5, 2020
A Brief History of Heritage Turkeys

Fatted Calf Bacon, Now Available Nationally through Heritage Foods USA for the Very First Time.
  • Feb 21, 2017
Fatted Calf Bacon, Now Available Nationally through Heritage Foods USA for the Very First Time.

Fatted Calf bacon is a bacon milestone. This is old-fashioned bacon at its finest, beginning with superior Heritage pigs, and then dry cured with brown sugar, sea salt, and a bit of cayenne – but it’s not too spicy, just well-balanced, and it is smoked over four kinds of wood, two fruit woods and two hardwoods — cherry, apple, mesquite and alderwood — to further balance the smoky flavor....

Embden Goose Tasting
  • Feb 4, 2015
Embden Goose Tasting

The team at Heritage Foods USA prides ourselves on providing the best products available while supporting a network of eighty farmers who raise heritage and rare breeds. We are determined to lead the pack with the best tasting items available. To date we remain the largest meat purveyor with the mission of increasing agricultural biodiversity. We are always seeking promising competition to challenge our standard of quality as this would be a sign of a tipping point in the larger food system.

  • Jun 4, 2014
Heritage Pork Taste Chart

Pork Breed Histories and Heritage Pork Taste Chart Berkshire [Fatty] smooth and creamy flavor Berkshire pork is elegant, luscious and smooth. The meat boasts a round and buttery flavor that melts on the tongue. Red Wattle [Fatty] flavorful, earthy, minerally, bold Red Wattle meat is charmingly inconsistent and can be earthy, vegetal and herbaceous with […] The post Heritage Pork Taste Chart appeared first on HERITAGE FOODS USA.

  • Jun 3, 2014
Heritage Lamb Taste Chart

Lamb Breed Histories and Heritage Lamb Taste Chart TUNIS It’s hard not to respect a breed that was referenced numerous times in the Bible (see fat-tailed sheep) and is reputed to be 3000 years old. It’s even harder to imagine the Tunis not being completely delicious since the first three U.S. presidents raised and consumed […] The post Heritage Lamb Taste Chart appeared first on HERITAGE FOODS USA.

Heritage Chicken Taste Chart
  • Apr 8, 2014
Heritage Chicken Taste Chart

Black Minorca The Minorca is a Mediterranean breed originated in Spain. They are one of the largest of the Mediterranean breeds, and are known to be great foragers and egg layers. Because of there large size they have historically been raised for their meat.

Lamb Breed Histories and Tasting Notes
  • Mar 17, 2014
Lamb Breed Histories and Tasting Notes

Lamb Breed Histories and Tasting Notes Want a hot recipe? Choose a lovely, well- sourced piece of meat — from a farm you know, and from a breed you have come to love, and add fire. Et voilà! There’s your recipe. Just remember, the fire is the constant, the meat is the variable.