Pursuitist traveled on her first food sourcing trip about a year ago, which included many Park City celebrity chefs and sous chefs. We went to… [Read More]The post A Carnivore Conversation: Debbie Rocker And Shelly Youree, Artisanal Meat Concierges, Founders Of Rare Gourmet Meats appeared first on Pursuitist.

Pursuitist traveled on her first food sourcing trip about a year ago, which included many Park City celebrity chefs and sous chefs. We went to mountainous Utah sheep and cattle ranches, where we learned a very important lesson: these chefs receive absolutely the finest cuts of meat for their high end restaurants and guests. Pursuitist wondered ever since then, about the quality the rest of us receive and how we, the non-celebrity chef/sous chef population, could ever receive the product excellence those other chefs are given. It turns out, the Pursuitist was not the only one who has pondered this question.Debbie Rocker And Shelly Youree, Founders of Rare Gourmet MeatsRare Gourmet Meats, founded by two women, Debbie Rocker and Shelly Youree, had also thought about this, and because Debbie?s Los Angeles family had been in the meat business (Rocker Brothers Meat And Provisions) for the past fifty years, they did something about it.Rare Gourmet Meats fills a rare gourmet niche, as it sells to high end/ high taste consumers as well as to restaurants ? a rarity in the field of artisanal meats. Not only does the company sell the highest end, restaurant quality meats to...