Serious Eats: New York
Stone Barns Wonders if You'd Like to See Where Your Meat Comes From
Could you still eat me if you saw where I came from?
I had no problem cooking and eating the chops I got from a lamb butchering demonstration at the Brooklyn Kitchen recently, but that is probably nothing compared to what Stone Barns is thinking of doing. According to an article in today's New York Times, Dan Barber is considering adding the farm's slaughterhouse to the tours they take diners on before eating at the Stone Barns location of Blue Hill in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Barber admits that seeing the slaughterhouse before dining at the restaurant "might be too much," but goes on to say that they are "still considering how it might (safely) open up the slaughterhouse to interested individuals or groups (for now, slaughter day happens on Tuesdays, when the farm is closed to the public)."