Tom Mylan didn’t start out as a butcher, but as an aspiring artist and writer. This was an early prosciutto cured at home with friends in his Bushwick Brooklyn loft.

Tom Mylan didn’t start out as a butcher, but as an aspiring artist and writer. This was an early prosciutto cured at home with friends in his Bushwick Brooklyn loft.

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Soon after Tom Mylan started cutting up whole animals for a Williamsburg shop, he gained a following. In an event the New York Magazine Grub Street blog called “fodder for Tom Mylan groupies,” Tom butchers a pig with his mentor, Josh Applestone of Fleisher’s Grassfed Meats, in front of a crowd at the New Amsterdam Market.

Soon after Tom Mylan started cutting up whole animals for a Williamsburg shop, he gained a following. In an event the New York Magazine Grub Street blog called “fodder for Tom Mylan groupies,” Tom butchers a pig with his mentor, Josh Applestone of Fleisher’s Grassfed Meats, in front of a crowd at the New Amsterdam Market.

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The audience watching the butchering display.

The audience watching the butchering display.

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Tom cleans up his butcher station.

Tom cleans up his butcher station.

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A blackboard at the opening of The Meat Hook, the Williamsburg shop that Tom opened with his friends and fellow butchers, Ben Turley and Brent Young.

A blackboard at the opening of The Meat Hook, the Williamsburg shop that Tom opened with his friends and fellow butchers, Ben Turley and Brent Young.

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If something dead can be glowing with health, it’s the meat in The Meat Hook.

If something dead can be glowing with health, it’s the meat in The Meat Hook.

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