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How fabricating chickens in high school inspired butcher Gabriela Gomez’s career
Electric City Butcher practices whole animal butchery and takes pride in sourcing from small, family-owned California farms and ranches focused on sustainable agriculture.
By Evan Kleiman • • 7m ListenElectric City Butcher practices whole animal butchery and takes pride in sourcing from small, family-owned California farms and ranches focused on sustainable agriculture. With aspirations to practice butchery straight out of high school, Gabriela Gomez worked at Michelin-starred restaurants in New York before landing at the Santa Ana butcher shop where she is making holiday-inspired sausages.
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- 31:33Advocating for sustainable meat production
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- 49:38Eating a fresh potato out of the ground
The full episode
5 of 6Barbecue, whole hog, beef, butchery- 0:00‘Cooking the Indian way’: The surprising beginnings of American barbecue
- 15:07Rodney Scott: Raised in the cult of barbecue
- 23:11In the Weeds: Obsessing over Texas barbecue in Los Angeles
- 31:33Advocating for sustainable meat production
- 41:43How fabricating chickens in high school inspired butcher Gabriela Gomez’s careerYou’re reading this
- 49:38Eating a fresh potato out of the ground