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Sex and Dating/Trashy And Classy

"...there's no better time for decapitating and gutting little piggies..."

Cuts Of Meat, With A Side Of Culture

"...the great philosopher of the meat purveying business may be Mr. Ruhalter" Alan Feuer

Butchering At Jeffrey’s Meat Market

"It’s one thing to cut back, but it’s another thing to cut your own meat." Lara Rabinovitch

Chinatown Vendors Ripe For Bargains

"New York's Chinatown, high-quality produce sold by small vendors is fresh and affordable." Lisa Chow

Market Forces At Work

"the family-owned business started in the 1920s and is now in its fourth generation." Mr. Patterson

How To Butcher A Pig

"He makes butchering look like what it is, an ART!"

Video Viewer Comment

Swaths of Greed, Pockets of Benevolence

“I’m on the front lines, where you see what people have in their pockets.” Clyde Haberman

Butcher Does His Part Making Sure Families Eat

"...my customers are my friends. If they're stuck, I'm going to help them."

Readers help butcher throw feast for New Yorkers

"230 struggling folks treated to a free dinner of strip steak, fancey cheese, desert and other goodies"

Butcher Plays Supper Man To Dozens Of New Yorkers

"Dream of serving steak dinners to people struggling to survive the economic downturn became a reality"

Butcher Class: Saving Is Close To The Bone

"For about a year Jeffrey Ruhalter has noticed his customers taking a greater interest in his trade."

Renovations, With Reservations

"I was so small, I had to stand on a milk crate to look over the counter." Joseph P. Fried

Butcher Bucks L.E.S. Trend

"I'm a piece of antiquity still kept alive," Ruhalter said" Farnoosh Torabi

Pretty Pictures and Pork Chops

"Iconoclastic butcher has been a tireless promoter of the artistic ambitions of his customers"

Alive and Kicking

"This exhibit features artist Nate Padavick’s illustrations"

He Gets It: Local Butcher Sets Up Recession Dinner

"Jeffrey Ruhalter is a Lower East Side butcher with a heart." Magee Hickey

L.E.S. Butcher’s $10 Gourmet Recession Dinners

“Prepare to have your cockles seriously warmed”

Pig Butchering

"Jeffrey's know-how and generosity were unparalleled" Student Comment

Deadline

"If it's dead, it's in my store"

Jeffrey’s Butcher Class #1

"And my # 1 memorable 2009 foodie moment is.... 1. Butchering classes with Jeffrey Ruhalter."

Slaughterhouse Live

"I feel like if I’m going to eat meat, I don’t want to eat stuff that I haven’t had to work for."