With each January comes a bunch of resolutions and attempts to improve. We are excited to start 2014 off the right way and we hope you are as well. For those who may be cutting back on carbs or dieting, here are a few nutritious jerky facts that you might want to know! Beef jerky […]
Baseball – It’s known as the Great American Past Time. If you love baseball and are lucky enough to have Major League Baseball in your city or enjoy AAA Minor League Baseball that is playing in your area, you know how expensive it can be for a day out at the fields. Maybe you are […]
For most people, garlic can be a love/hate seasoning. There are really three areas in the love/hate spectrum that you will find; You either love it – hate it – or enjoy it in moderation. It is tough to be anywhere else in there. Garlic can be a strong taste, almost to the point of […]
The holiday season is huge for every retailer and it is no different at Mountain America Jerky. We are gearing up for our holiday shipping season and making sure we have all of the product on hand and ready to ship. This year we have added a few new flavors of jerky that you may […]
When you create a product that is like ours, you kind of want to stand up and tell the world about it. We started Mountain America Jerky with just a few flavors of our amazing beef jerky and the business grew from there. Today we are proud to bring to you 7 different tastes and […]
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 […]