Caption: Students at butchery class in Hailey, Idaho, Credit: Paulette Phlipot
Image by: Paulette Phlipot 
Students at butchery class in Hailey, Idaho 

Butchery Classes for Conscientious Carnivores

Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
From: Guy Hand
Length: 00:05:41

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Piece Description

[HOST INTRO] More and more people are getting directly involved in food.  Growing it, cooking it, even blogging about it.  Some are going still further: plunging — literally— into the meat of the matter. 
 
Correspondent Guy Hand visits a class where every student wields a knife — and the desire to learn the fading art of butchery.

Broadcast History

Aired on Boise State Radio, KBSX 91.5 in Boise, Idaho on Feb. 1, 2010

Transcript

Butchery Class
Edible Idaho Feature: 0202GH_Butchery.wav Feature 5:16 02/02/10 GH/ed
[HOST INTRO] More and more people are getting directly involved in food. Growing it, cooking it, even blogging about it. Some are going still further: plunging — literally— into the meat of the matter.
Correspondent Guy Hand visits a class where every student wields a knife — and the desire to learn the fading art of butchery.
(5:16 to soc out; music ends at 5:38)
[HOST OUTRO] For more on this story or to listen to past Edible Idaho programs, go to northwest food news dot com.
[SCRIPT]
(Butcher blues music) (Hand) There was a time when the word “butcher” didn’t dredge up thoughts of slasher movie mayhem. (Music: I bought a meat shop just the other day . . .) The neighborhood butcher was as revered as the baker and the candlestick maker. But in the ‘60s, as industrial meat packers began deliverin...
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Intro and Outro

INTRO:

[HOST INTRO] More and more people are getting directly involved in food. Growing it, cooking it, even blogging about it. Some are going still further: plunging — literally— into the meat of the matter.
Correspondent Guy Hand visits a class where every student wields a knife — and the desire to learn the fading art of butchery.
(5:16 to soc out; music ends at 5:38)

OUTRO:

[HOST OUTRO] For more on this story or to listen to past Edible Idaho programs, go to northwest food news dot com.

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Butcher Shop Blues The Nov-elettes Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs& Cigarettes. Master Classics Records 2009 02:40

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