PrintGreat Pork at Ceriello's
On my way back to the office from a meeting I stopped at the Ceriello Fine Foods counter at the Market at the Grand Central Terminal (which has quietly become one of the best food shopping destinations in New York). I ordered two pre-stuffed Berkshire pork roasts, one with the bones in, the other boneless. They were stuffed with some combination of spinach, prosciutto, mozzarella, Pecorino Romano, and I think, strangely enough, it said filet mignon (I looked on the website, which is so poorly organized I couldn't find anything about what I bought). They both looked gorgeous: the meat was dark red and beautifully marbled, which is what you look for in heritage pork.
I served them both to our friends Joan and Tom on Saturday night, and even though I overcooked them, both roasts were crazy good, porky and moist and deeply satisfying in the way only pork can be. Joan said she had been lamenting her lack of a go-to butcher for pork. Now, I told her, we both have one.
I also want to know more about Ceriello's. They have stores in Long Island, Manhattan, New Jersey, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Virginia, and coming soon, Memphis. These guys clearly have big plans.
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Ceriello's also has great rib-eye steaks. It is a fine butcher and easy to underestimate because of its lack of Manhattan reputation before it located at Grand Central. I don't find the butchers there to be flexible about preparing anything special while I wait, but the prepared cuts are excellent.
danlevy at 6:40PM on 01/09/08