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Easy Butter-Poached Lobster

July 30, 2020

If cooking lobster seems intimidating, our easy butter-poached lobster recipe has got you covered. All you need is a pack of ButcherBox lobster claw and knuckle meat and your choice of fat. Easy Butter-Poached Lobster 1 package ButcherBox Cold Cracked Lobster1 sprig tarragon (use a good size [...]

Oystering with Dad

June 19, 2020

It’s 7 am on a cold Sunday in January, and my father, Tom Littauer, is already up. I hear him loading the bed of his pickup with wire baskets, rubber wading boots, and blunt, beat-up kitchen knives. I roll out of bed, bleary-eyed, and stumble downstairs. He hands me a banana and a mug of steaming [...]

butcherbox founder mike salguero in a field

A Thank You From Our Founder

April 16, 2020

Since early March, the ButcherBox team has been called on as a crucial player in the food supply industry to continue to do what we’ve always done: Deliver protein directly to consumers' homes. While that may seem like a simple task, in a time of crisis and uncertainty, it’s anything but. Withou [...]

The Most Popular ButcherBox Recipes

March 27, 2020

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Bristol Bay, The Pristine Alaskan Waters Where We Source Our Sockeye Salmon

January 11, 2020

Last January, we started selling a limited supply of wild-caught sockeye salmon for the first time to ButcherBox members. Since, we have expanded our seafood offerings to include Georges Bank scallops. (more…) [...]

Saving Bristol Bay, Home of the Best Salmon in the World

June 13, 2019

In southwest Alaska, where the Alaskan Peninsula meets the Bering Sea, lies Bristol Bay, a pristine natural treasure and the home to one of the most bountiful salmon fishing regions on the planet. Bristol Bay provides all five varieties of Pacific salmon, including almost half of the sockeye salmon [...]

We Are ButcherBox – Delivering Meat America Can Trust

May 30, 2019

Motivated to find a better, cleaner way to feed his family, ButcherBox founder Mike Salguero connected with a local cattle farmer through his church in 2015. The experience that followed, picking a share of the 100 percent grass-fed beef spread across the farmer’s living room, led to two rev [...]

Committing to More Humane Chicken Standards: Continuing Our Quality-Driven Mission

April 4, 2019

At ButcherBox, our mission is to bring high-quality meat to our members while ensuring the humane and sustainable treatment of our animals. To us, there is no way to substitute quality standards which is why we always pay special attention to every detail of how an animal is raised — Did they liv [...]

Quick and Easy Baked Chicken Tenders

January 1, 2019

Toss chicken tenders with a simple spice mix and pop them in the oven for this easy dish. If you need cooked chicken prepped for the week, this may be the simplest way to get it! Quick and Easy Baked Chicken Tenders 3 lbs ButcherBox Chicken Tenders2 Tbsp garlic powder2 Tbsp onion powd [...]

How Well-Known Blogger and Media Influencer Dooce Became a “Former” Vegan

June 5, 2018

This post was first featured, as the first of two blog posts on Heather Armstrong’s blog, Dooce, in September 2017 about being a former vegan. It has been edited somewhat, but the story of farmer John Arbuckle and what Dooce learned about animal well-being, sustainable farming, and American famil [...]

Mark Sisson on Living a Well-balanced, Healthy, and Active Life

July 21, 2017

Mark Sisson is not only a leading voice on how to eat healthy foods and maintain peak athletic performance, but he is the embodiment of what better living is really all about. At age 63, Mark is able to balance family, business (the ever-growing Primal Kitchen empire), pleasure, and an active lifes [...]