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Mail-Order
Steaks?
Will asks: My family and I love to grill steaks (filets). Can you recommend any of those mail order meats, like Omaha Steaks? Tom Sez: Do not under any circumstances order steaks from any mail-order outfit. Most of them don't give any grade for their beef--and you know what that means. Although a very few of them have extraordinary beef, the price is out of all proportion to the tiny uptick in quality. More important, you can get better beef in local supermarkets. We are lucky enough in the New Orleans area to have some stores with very good butcher shops. The best stores for beef are Langenstein’s two stores (800 Metairie Road, and 1330 Arabella, Uptown), Dorignac's (710 Veterans), Robert's (5016 W Esplanade Ave.), and the Whole Food Market (3420 Veterans and 5600 Magazine). All of those have USDA Prime beef--perhaps not all the time, but often enough. A great new development in meat markets is the first offering of dry-aged beef I've ever seen in these parts. The beef is in whole primal cuts, upwrapped, in special refrigerators for the aging to take place. Rouse's has them in some of its stores (5245 Veterans and 3461 East Causeway Approach in Mandeville, and perhaps elsewhere too), and so does Whole Food Market. Revised 3/10/08 Copyright © 2008 Tom Fitzmorris. All rights reserved. |
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