These Mail Order Meat Companies Let You Skip the Grocery Store This Holiday Season
Whether you want salmon, snow beef, or something in between, there's a mail-order option for you.
We’ve sung the praises of mail order meats before: The quality that exceeds supermarket fare! The variety of cuts you’d need to go to a specialty butcher for! The not having to go to the store for Two. Whole. Weeks. Well I have a few more options to share with you as we rapidly transition to the season of roasts, braises, whole roasted fish, and thick double-cut chops.
Kvaroy Salmon
Based in the northern reaches of Norway, Kvaroy sets the standard in sustainable salmon farming best practices. Their silky and rich fish is super high in long-chain omega-3s, and is free of antibiotics, hormones, and artificial coloring. The results are consistently delicious and free of the downsides of many other farmed offerings.
Roam Butcher Shop
Bay area restaurant Roam Artisan Burgers has expanded its meat-centric offerings to include the new Roam Butcher Shop. Their curated boxes of carnivorous delights include thick Duroc pork chops, racks of lamb, heritage prime beef, eggs, bacon, and other top-notch proteins. They come frozen, thaw quite nicely, and will keep you and your family well-fed for a week or more.
Oshen Salmon
The latest entry into sustainable and responsibly managed salmon makes some of the richest, cleanest tasting farmed salmon I’ve cooked of late. Shot through with rich omega-3s, a delicate orange in color, and sweetly savory in taste, the king salmon offerings from Oshen are restaurant-quality, super rich, and benefit from a generous sprinkling of kosher salt and a quick sear in a cast iron pan.
Snake River Farms
Pioneering Idaho-based domestic Wagyu beef producers have launched their first ever subscription box program and will send you curated boxes of exquisitely marbled beef in both classic butcher’s offerings and some more secret cuts. Everyday luxury is a zeitgeisty thing I can get behind.
Pursuit Farms Steak
If your idea of luxury beef ends with Wagyu, consider leveling up with this boutique West Coast company, which is one of only 10 sellers in the world certified to sell Hokkaido snow beef. The coveted cattle live in freezing temperatures, which is said to confer a sweet flavor on their fat tissues. Pursuit can also score you so-called Olive beef from Kagawa; this is made from steer that are fed olive pulp, and it won the 2017 Wagyu Olympics.