By adamg on Mon., 1/9/2023 - 11:03 am
The other day, Tim McCormack had a chat with a butcher at M.F. Dulock in Somerville about why it's so hard to find goat meat. It has to do with the fact that, unlike beef, people only tend to want goat for stewing. He explains why that makes butchers reluctant to regularly carry goat (note: click on the "Show more" links for each entry).
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The simple explanation seems
By anon
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 12:14pm
The simple explanation seems to be that there isn't enough demand for goat at high-end specialty butchers like Dulock.
The obvious solution: go to a Halal market. They all have it.
Hmm, Garden Halal Meat on Blackstone Street has a buffet with North African stews. That just jumped to the top of my food to-do list.
What's his shop's demographic?
By tachometer
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 12:31pm
If I was looking for goat meat I would probably look to the halal markets first where you're more likely to find immigrant customers who likely consume it more regularly.
That seems like a better source than a butcher with a mission "to strengthÂen our local food sysÂtem by offerÂing ethÂiÂcalÂly sourced meats and honÂest diaÂlogue" and that boasts "We careÂfulÂly source our liveÂstock from small farms in New EngÂland and the HudÂson ValÂley."
No offense to them as it looks like a good shop, just not one with customers that would be regularly looking for goat meat.
Food Land in Malden is the
By anon
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 12:47pm
Food Land in Malden is the Halal Jam spot
also worth looking in Hispanic meat markets....
By passing_thru
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 1:16pm
I'm not sure about where exactly to go in Boston (places in Everett/Revere/Chelsea would be where I'd look first), but I used to live in Attleboro and would shop at Armando & Sons Meat Market and they always had multiple choices for cuts of goat on hand.
This comment makes no sense.
By anon
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 1:22pm
It’s responding to an argument neither the author nor the butcher made. Most butchers don’t carry goat, for the reasons the butcher stated. For some reason you used that unassailable argument as a jumping off point to take shots at a local butcher because you apparently don’t like the shop’s mission statement. What a strange response.
Tell me you missed the point
By tachometer
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 6:18pm
The first line of the post is about a conversation with this butcher about why it's "so hard to find goat meat" around here.
That is the claim.
My point, which is one that others here have confirmed, is that if you go to a halal butcher or a market in the area that caters to other immigrant groups that more commonly eat goat it is not hard to find. Here's a nice supermarket in Roxbury that carries it.
Pointing out that a butcher with a mission statement as quoted is not one that matches those demographics and would therefore have a perspective that there is a low demand for it is hardly taking a shot, in fact I said that it looked like a good place.
Bit of a misrepresentation
By Tim Mc.
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 7:07pm
If you look at the actual thread, you'll see that I never said it was hard to find goat meat, generically.
The way Adam phrased it is a bit misleading, and while I don't really blame you or him for that, I do want to make it clear that that wasn't the original point.
Not a better source if you want ethical sourcing
By Tim Mc.
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 7:04pm
I'm well aware that I could get goat at a number of shops in the area, but I was at MF Dulock specifically because of that mission statement. We eat very little meat, and when we do, we ensure it's from a place that cares well for both the animals and the land.
That requires either us or the supplier knowing the farmer, which isn't possible at most markets.
Farmers' markets
By lbb
Tue, 01/10/2023 - 10:53am
...or direct from the farm. Anything you buy there will be frozen, so go to the farm and stock up. See the CISA website for farms.
Correct, except goat isn't common there either
By Tim Mc.
Tue, 01/10/2023 - 4:39pm
Most people don't want to raise goats because goats are Trouble. :-P The only reliable source I know of is Chestnut Farms at the Boston Public Market. And I also don't want to go halfway across the state just to pick up a couple pounds of goat meat.
I was getting delicious goat …
By Lee
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 1:35pm
… liver, kielbasa and stew meat from a farmer who came to the Dewey Sq farmers market till last summer when she decided the driving into town and out again was too much. I hope to see them back this year.
I’ve seen it….
By Ward8Mahatma
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 7:11pm
….frozen at the Market Baskets in Revere and Chelsea
I’ve seen it….
By Ward8Mahatma
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 7:11pm
….frozen at the Market Baskets in Revere and Chelsea
I’ve seen it….
By Ward8Mahatma
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 7:11pm
….frozen at the Market Baskets in Revere and Chelsea
I have goat meat in Shaw's on
By redheadedjen
Tue, 01/10/2023 - 10:42am
I have seen goat meat in Shaw's on HP Ave.
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