What are the best Italian butchers? A wonderful question. When you ask someone what is the best butcher, the answer seems obvious now: "that in my house, I go there for years."
There are certainly some amazing butcher shops throughout Italy who make hard work of research and selection of meats. Meat is a very important element of man in power and the work of the Italian butchers is vital.
There are several types of meat that can be found in the Italian butchers. Beef, veal, pork, poultry, sheep, goats, horses and more including venison.
Many butchers in addition to the usual cuts of meat dishes already offer only ready to "fire" such as kebabs, stuffed roast, roasts and more.
The local butchers can find meat from local farms where the quality is very good. There are butchers integral parts of large retail chains where you can find meat from around the world. Now it is mandatory to put on the label the origin of that particular meat. Instead the small butcher shops that you find in cities or in small towns tend to target local meats. These very often they source from local farms to ensure the meat offering to their clients.
There are popular meat in the world that are mainly sold in specific areas of Italy. For example, the Chianina, Marchigiana, Maremmana, Romagnola, Piemontese and Podolica.
A good butcher will be able to recommend the most appropriate cut of meat according to the dish you want to cook. Very often it will be able also to advise you how to cook it.
The peculiarity of our Italian meats is that farms breed adhering fully with all applicable standards as opposed to other countries where they are not fully applied.
Striking example of this is the American chicken to show it beautiful is treated with bleach.
