From eating them raw to baking them down into garlicky goodness, five farmers who sell goods at Salt Lake City's Downtown Farmers Market share their favorite ways to enjoy their items.
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My search for a better chicken
People are more aware of how their poultry is processed, and food industry now provides options that tout a more humane way to consume. But do those labels really deliver what they promise?
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Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
When I spatchcocked my first chicken, the sound of bone breaking as I sliced down the spine startled me. Blood ran down the cutting board, and my jaw clenched a little tighter.
“Don’t get salmonella. Don’t give your roommate salmonella,” I thought.
But mixed in with the anxiety of cutting raw meat another feeling surfaced pride. I’d been vegetarian most of my life, and was raised by a mother whose memories of eating animals she thought were pets made her eschew meat all together.