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Ask the butcher

Anthony Puharich knows meat. He should. He's the butcher that stands between Australia's best producers and chefs, whether at his meat boutique Victor Churchill or supplying Australia's best restaurants. Join him on a culinary journey from farm gate to the dinner plate, and learn how to make the most of your meat.

When Anthony was a young boy, he spent countless hours with his father, Vic, one of Australia’s leading butchers – learning how to work with, cook and respect all varieties of meat. 20-years later, Anthony, along with his father have grown Vic’s Premium Quality Meats from a retail shop in Sydney, to an international meat wholesaler.

Ask the Butcher will take you behind the farm gate, in to the deep freezer and on to the hot grill, to learn anything you could possibly want to know about meat.

Each week, Anthony and his team will explain individual cuts of meats and take you through the ageing process at his famous – and one of the world’s coolest – butchers shops, Victor Churchill. Beef, lamb, pork, cured meats, poultry and game will all be on the menu.

Anthony will visit the kitchens of some of Australia’s top chefs including Matt Moran, Shannon Bennett, Peter Gilmore, Kylie Kwong and Neil Perry. As well as explore cooking at home and how best to utilise the meats readily available at your local butchers.

No steak will be left unturned as Anthony educates and entertains with his laid-back, rock and roll approach to all things carnivorous.

The 8-part series is produced by Valarc Films for the LifeStyle FOOD Channel.

Episodes:

Beef

Series 1 · Episode 1

The premiere episode of Ask the Butcher looks at the difference between grass and grain-fed beef. Anthony travels to Stanley in northwest Tasmania to learn about grass-fed cattle, and then to Rangers Valley NSW to learn about grain-fed beef... 

Lamb

Series 1 · Episode 2

Milk-fed lamb is all the rave in top restaurants and on Flinders Island, we find out why...

Pork

Series 1 · Episode 3

Anthony breaks down a side of pork and shows us where the major cuts come from. In rural Victoria he visits a rare breed pig farmer before getting into the kitchen himself to show us a simple, yet delicious crumbed pork cutlet recipe...

Poultry and Game

Series 1 · Episode 4

Maggie Beer shows us her famous roast chook at the Barossa farm house, before Anthony heads to Lilydale chicken farm to see how they process their free range products. Inside Sydney's Mr. Wong, chef Dan Hong cooks his best duck recipe and back at the butcher shop, Anthony shows you how to debone a chicken and make a simple stock with the leftovers...

Lean Meats

Series 1 · Episode 5

At the idyllic White Rocks property in WA, Anthony meats a veal farmer and shows us the process of farming this product...

Wagyu

Series 1 · Episode 6

The journey starts in Alexandra in Victoria, where David Blackmore tells us the secrets of producing the perfect Wagyu product...