4505 Meats

PRODUCTS: Smoked artisan hot dogs, chicarrones, and peanut butter bacon brownies

PEOPLE: Ryan and Cesalee Farr.

ABOUT: Ryan Farr started 4505 Meats in 2008 after spending many years working in restaurants, including San Francisco's Fifth Floor and Orson. In additional to regular butcher classes and whole animal demonstrations, Ryan keeps a blog where he documents his experiences cooking under-appreciated parts of the animal.

SOURCING: 4505 Meats buys whole, pasture-raised animals and sources them from local farms and ranches when possible. Some recent sources include: Marin Sun Farms, Niman Ranch, Prather Ranch, and Devil's Gulch Ranch. 4505 chicharrones (fried pork skins) are fried in rice bran oil and flavored with sea salt, cane sugar, and chile.

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