We have talked many times on our blog about jerky being a healthy snack and we believe it is. Even with the higher levels of sodium contained in some of the products, it is still a better food choice than junk food and other choices that are out there. Plus it is a snack and […]
*This is an archived post, we are currently out of Antelope Jerky, please try one of our other Exotic jerkies like Alpaca jerky or Kangaroo jerky. We are going to share with you a bit about our Antelope Jerky today. Antelope are often mistaken for deer by some but they are actually a different breed […]
Summer is in full swing and that means millions of people are hitting the roads and air for vacations all over the USA. Traveling can be such a curse sometimes, with flight delays or road construction causing late arrivals. Be prepared with healthy snacks for the whole family. Mountain America Jerky is a healthy snack […]
What is in the jerky you are eating? If your favorite jerky has a lot of words that you cannot pronounce, then step up to a delicious jerky that is hand made in small batches with ingredients you know and can understand. At Mountain America Jerky, we publish the ingredients and nutritional values of jerky […]
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 […]