What’s for Easter dinner? If you’re planning on ham, then have a look at our Applewood Smoked Heritage Ham. We take our ham seriously. It begins with the heritage-breed pork we select, from hogs raised on pasture, without the use of antibiotics. The old breeds are renowned for great taste and tenderness, which is perfect when…
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Weekend Cooking: 7 Meals for the Week
One of the best things you can do for your health (and your wallet) is to cook meals at home. However, a busy schedule often keeps us from achieving this ideal, and instead finds us eating take-out food in a hurry. A solution is to cook for leftovers. If you cook on the weekend, you…
A Pressing Issue: Duck
This week Bloomberg wrote about the duck press as an old trend being rediscovered, and Chef Laurent Gras showed them how to use the device. What is the duck press? The antique kitchen tool has been fascinating people for ages, from its origin in Paris during the 1800s – the days of opulent meals, when the…
French Lessons with Ariane & Alix
Traditional Home did a wonderful piece with Ariane and her daughter Alix years ago. For the article, Ariane and Alix cooked a typical Gascon Sunday meal at home, to show how the traditions continue across generations and oceans. As you would expect, Ariane used D’Artagnan products like duck breast, jambon de Bayonne, truffle butter, and chicken….
Raising a Stink Over Ramps
The ramp is a wild onion native to North America and is sometimes called spring onion, wild leek, or wild garlic. It is known by the Latin name Allium tricoccum. Long appreciated by country folk and eaten as a spring tonic, the ramp has in recent years taken on a mantle of cult status among…
New Arrival: Slab Bacon
Looking for a new level of bacon obsession? Try our slab bacon. This was a cut we reserved for chefs, but we’ve had many requests from home cooks. So here it is at last: the largest hunk of bacon you’ve ever had in your kitchen. What’s the big fuss? What is slab bacon anyway? Slab bacon is…
The Best Way to Eat Slab Bacon
Looking for a new level of bacon obsession? Try our slab bacon. This was a cut we reserved for chefs, but we’ve had many requests from home cooks. So here it is at last: the largest hunk of bacon you’ve ever had in your kitchen. What’s the big fuss? What is slab bacon anyway? Slab bacon is…
Meet the Mushrooms: Morels
We have expanded our mushroom offerings at dartagnan.com to include some of our chef favorites. While organic cultivated mushrooms make up the majority of our catalog, we also offer wild-foraged mushrooms in season. These fresh mushrooms are sure to find their way into many of your cooking adventures.
It Only Happens Once a Year!
After the cold, grey months of winter, we love to see the seasonal greens appear once again. This is the time for fiddlehead ferns and ramps. The sudden arrival of crates of fresh, green things in our warehouse is one of the pleasures of early spring. There is only a brief moment when fiddleheads, or fiddlehead fern…
Try Authentic A5 Japanese Wagyu Beef Striploin
Our Japanese Wagyu A5 Ribeye has been a hit, and now it has a friend: Japanese Wagyu A5 Boneless Striploin. It’s eleven pounds of pure beef fantasy, the stuff of legend, with marbling like you’ve never seen. A5 Wagyu beef is the real thing: exceedingly hard-to-find Wagyu beef from Japan. Just like our ribeye, it is…
New Arrival: A5 Japanese Wagyu Beef Striploin
Our Japanese Wagyu A5 Ribeye has been a hit at dartagnan.com. And now it has a friend: Japanese Wagyu A5 Boneless Striploin. It’s eleven pounds of pure beef fantasy, the stuff of legend, with marbling like you’ve never seen. A5 Wagyu beef is the real thing: exceedingly hard-to-find Wagyu beef from Japan. Just like our ribeye,…
The Power of Pasta: 7 Recipes
There is no denying the allure of pasta. With seemingly infinite shapes and sizes, there is pasta for every need. From homemade to store-bought, pasta is always welcome at the table, no matter what the season. When we cook pasta, we like to play with ingredients like duck bacon and foie gras, truffles and truffle…
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