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the most honest profession: it admits what dinner actually costs.
means The trade of slaughtering animals and preparing their meat for sale, or — by extension — any clumsy, brutal botching of a task.
from From 'butcher,' which came into English through Old French 'bouchier,' meaning one who sells goat's flesh — built on 'bouc,' a he-goat (a cousin of English 'buck'). So at its root, a butcher was literally a goat-monger, and 'butchery' the whole bloody business of it. The figurative sense of 'making a brutal mess of something' followed naturally: if you can wreck a carcass, you can wreck a song, a speech, or a name.
- oldest trade
- Butchers predate written language and most religions.
- hidden geometry
- Every cut follows the muscle's own engineering.
- guild power
- Medieval butcher guilds rivaled banks in wealth.
- word twist
- 'Butcher' became slang for reckless slaughter, not skill.
- whole respect
- Nose-to-tail cooking revived the craft's lost artistry.
la boucherie charcuterie morey — third-generation butcher shop in lyon, france, famous for traditional charcuterie since 1961
ruhlman's meat shop — historic butcher in cleveland, ohio, operating since 1906, known for hungarian sausages
the ethical butcher — sustainable butcher shop in portland, oregon, specializing in nose-to-tail processing since 2010