Meet Eater Young Guns Winner Leighann Smith of Cochon Butcher in New Orleans. This "Meat Mama" learned to cook from her grandmother at age seven and scored her first job in a professional kitchen at age 15. Now, years later, she serves as one of the few female butchers in New Orleans. She's the lady with chops at repeat James Beard nom Donald Link's esteemed Cochon Butcher, the casual meat market attached to slightly more formal sibling Cochon.
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