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The Art of Selecting Fresh Chicken: A Gourmet’s Handbook to Poultry Shopping

There was a time that supermarkets sold only one or two types of chicken, but these days your chicken buying options at supermarkets are seemingly unlimited. Should you buy a whole chicken or specific chicken parts such as breasts, legs, wings, or thighs? The whole chicken will be cheaper on a per-pound basis but will require more work in terms of butchering. Is the convenience of pre-cut chicken worth paying more?

From Belly to Chop: The Ultimate Guide to Pork Cuts for the Modern Chef

The majority of pork, roasts, chops, and ribs sold in supermarkets today have little resemblance to the other white meat we eat back in the day when I was growing up as a child, pork was dry for the most part. New breeding techniques and feeding systems designed to slim down the modern hog have resulted in pork that this about 1/3 less fat than it did 20 years ago.