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Update from Heritage Meat Shop
  • Feb 6, 2014
Update from Heritage Meat Shop

‘Heritage Meat Shop is the “visible” arm of Heritage Foods USA.  Located in New York City’s Essex Street Market, HMS can provide a selection of meats both from local farmers and from the stocks of Heritage Foods USA.Two or three times a week we’ll have beef and hogs to break down, and we’ll happily provide custom cuts.  Just give us a call, as these cuts go fast!

Omnivore Salt
  • Feb 5, 2014
Omnivore Salt

This week we are excited to premiere Omnivore Salt as part of our brand new pantry section. Omnivore Salt is crafted by blacksmith, hunter, and food lover Angelo Garro in his forge in San Francisco. The blend is based on the recipe his mother taught him while he was growing up in Sicily. His salt has become legendary in the food and arts scene in the Bay Area and now it is available for customers around the country. The post Omnivore Salt appeared first on HERITAGE FOODS USA.

Baia Pasta and Heritage Meats
  • Feb 4, 2014
Baia Pasta and Heritage Meats

Baia Pasta is made by Renato Sardo in Oakland, CA. Renato and Heritage Foods founder Patrick Martins' friendship stretches back to the founding of Slow Food USA. Both have expanded their passion for quality food to specialty products and we are so pleased to be pairing his outstanding pastas with our meats. Ground pork, beef, lamb, and goat all make exceptional sauces that partner perfectly with Baia Pasta.

Batali Salumi!
  • Jan 28, 2014
Batali Salumi!

This week we area proud to feature a Salumi Package from Batali Salumi! In 2005, one of this country’s great curemasters, Armandino Batali, got a call from a kid in New York trying to sell him pork. He thought it suspicious at best and maybe even a practical joke, but after repeated attempts, he finally relented and brought in a pallet of 30lb Heritage hams, jowl and shoulders to his beautiful facility in Seattle proper.

Rare Breed Heritage Chicken Tour
  • Jan 23, 2014
Rare Breed Heritage Chicken Tour

Last summer we launched our Rare Breed Heritage Chicken Tour – an effort to revive 24 rare, heritage chicken lines and create an alternative market for non-industrially bred chicken.  We partnered with Frank Reese, the country’s preeminent poultry farmer, to show our customers what real chicken tastes like.

Tunis Lamb on Pasture
  • Dec 9, 2013
Meadowood Farm Tunis Lamb

This Holiday Season we are proud to offer Tunis Lamb from Meadowood Farms in Cazenovia, New York. Meadowood Farms produces fine sheep and cow cheeses that our friends at Saxelby Cheese have been carrying for a some time. After a visit to the farm this summer, we began working with Meadowood to feature beef from their Belted Galloway cattle. We decided to deepen our relationship with them this fall after we tasted their incredible lamb.

Frank Reese on Heritage Turkeys
  • Nov 21, 2013
Frank Reese on Heritage Turkeys

Our very own Frank Reese was profiled in Modern Midwest as a farmer who “wants to change the way you think about your Thanksgiving Meal Centerpiece.”

Talking Heritage Turkey with Frank Reese on Heritage Radio Network
  • Nov 14, 2013
Talking Heritage Turkey with Frank Reese on Heritage Radio Network

Frank Reese live on Heritage Radio Network! This week on No Chefs Allowed, Heritage turkey hero Frank Reese talks with hosts, Megan and Tricia as they begin planning for Thanksgiving. Frank, a fourth-generation turkey farmer, is the ambassador for the turkeys that used to feed America.