If you enjoy making your own venison jerky or game jerky and have a favorite recipe that you love to make, there are some safety concerns that you should be aware of when handling game. People have been handling game for thousands of years and as the settlers and Indian tribes, as well as millions […]
Have you ever had Elk Jerky? We have spent hours perfecting our elk jerky recipe and you need to try it out. Mountain America has the finest elk jerky on the market. Here is why. We pride ourselves on the fact that we use only the best meat. No growth hormones or steroids are used […]
Following the history of jerky from its humble beginnings as a way to sustain life during the Aztec and Indian era as well as seeing how jerky worked for explorers over the past hundreds and thousands of years, jerky has come full circle to where we are now in history. Jerky today has become a […]
As settlers populated the eastern part of the United States and towns and cities grew up overnight; there became an urge to move west. American Indians reigned over the western part of the country and jerky was a big part of their existence. As we mentioned earlier Bison jerky or Buffalo, as it is more commonly […]
As more and more settlers started coming to the New World, jerky become an important protein source. Thanks to the American Indians that shared their secret to curing and cutting the meat into strips, jerky really helped sustain life to those settling the New World. As encampments grew to towns and cities and ever expanding […]
Now that we know jerky has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years thanks to the Incas, jerky also made its mark in the New World. With the knowledge of drying and preserving meat learned in South America, in and around what we know as Peru today, the Incas may have passed along some […]
It’s tough to know who made jerky first and where the idea was born in history. Maybe it was an accidental process but history as we know it has been determined that most likely it was being created at some point between the 1300’s to the 1500’s in an Incan tribe known as the Quechua. […]
Living in the world as we know it today, it is hard to believe that jerky never existed. But for those people living in the 14th Century and earlier in Europe and Asia and the far reaches of the world, the preservation of meat as we know it did not exist. We now know that […]
If you have had beef sticks before then you know what an easy snack they can be. While they are readily available in many convenience stores, the quality of those are not near what we have produced at Mountain America with our amazing jerky sticks. One taste will tell you there is no comparison. Our […]
We have been making our jerky for so many years, I think it is safe to say that we are pretty much experts in the art of making beef jerky. Our beef jerky recipe has been perfected over the years and has developed into a delicious, well-loved product. We do have a few secrets behind […]