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- BUSINESS, Page 65Business NotesCUISINEComing Soon: McOstrich?
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- Fanatically health-conscious Americans long ago deserted red
- meat, but they may soon flock back, attracted by a new entry on
- the menu: ground ostrich. Last month the Cuyama Buckhorn
- restaurant, about 160 miles north of Los Angeles, started
- serving ostrich burgers. Owner Ed Barredo charges the same for
- ostrich as for beef hamburgers, $6.95, and says he is selling
- about 25 pounds of ostrich a week.
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- The meat is dark, tasty and similar to beef but has
- one-eighth the fat and 15% less cholesterol, with just as much
- protein. Ostrich meat is lower in calories than even chicken and
- turkey. America's 1,000 or so ostrich growers, who raise the
- birds for their hides and feathers, are thrilled by the
- potential of this new market. Says ostrich rancher Gary
- Teixeria, who had the burger brainstorm and passed it on to
- Barredo: "The public is just eating it up."
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