When your Jerky Tracks Bison Bourbon flavored Jerky arrives get ready for a treat. This small batch Jerky comes from a family business headed by Mike Sabatino of Ballwin, MO. Mike and his sons, Alex, Jake, and Nick, are the forces behind Jerky Tracks and this business was born as a father and sons project resulting from their love of salted meats, the great outdoors and… Read more →
Hailing from Sonoma, CA in Northern California wine country, Krave Beef Jerky Garlic Chili Pepper pays homage to the close by “garlic capital of the world” Gilroy, CA and the chili peppers grown in the Central California region. When you first open the package the nose is treated to a clean beef aroma with a hint of garlic spice. Promoted as All-Natural and… Read more →
You will find this Jerky has great flavor, a sweet taste as it hits your palate followed by a mild amount of heat that will stay with you for a while after eaten. This Jerky is easy to consume as it is fairly soft and not fatty. This is my benchmark for a quality production Jerky. Trader Joe’s promotes this Jerky as… Read more →
Featured on the CBS Sunday Morning program on January 18, 2015 were Black Forest Bison out of Colorado Springs, CO and Texas Aggie Brand Beef Jerky from the the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. The segment was entitled Beef Jerky: Not Just a Gas Station Staple and discussed growing popularity of Jerky highlighting that sales have soared in recent years to over 2.5 Billion dollars annually.
Jerky is the delicious result of a pre-historic meat preservation technique developed in many locations around the globe by complex prehistoric peoples some 12,000+ years ago. Based on bone finds Archaeologists suggest that Neanderthals made jerky, which could have been made from horse, red deer, woolly rhinoceros, bison and even mammoth. Ancient Egyptians ate jerky, so did early cultures elsewhere in Africa and in the… Read more →