Alice apprenticed under butcher Cole Ward for a story three years ago. Now the meat cutter has the first-ever butchering DVD series, “The Gourmet Butcher.” He and Alice join his co-star chef Courtney Contos in cooking salt-crusted beef tenderloin in a flaming paper bag.


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AAN award-winning food writer Alice Levitt is a fan of the exotic, the excellent and automats. She wrote for Seven Days 2007-2015.