# Kari Underly > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kari_Underly > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kari_Underly.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Underly > Source revision: 1056530162 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Kari Underly** is an American [meat cutter](/source/Meat_cutter) and educator. She is also the [CEO](/source/Chief_executive_officer) of Range, Inc. located in [Chicago](/source/Chicago). Underly has provided classes on how to butcher animals, including creating online training. She has also helped develop software and cuts of meat for the [National Cattlemen's Beef Association](/source/National_Cattlemen's_Beef_Association) (NCBA). In 2011 she published *The Art of Beef Cutting*. ## Biography Underly comes from a family of [meat cutters](/source/Meat_cutter). Her maternal grandmother, Harriet Austin, owned a market with her husband and maintained her meat-cutter's license into her nineties.[1] Her paternal grandmother, Cylia, worked as a [butcher](/source/Butcher) on a farm during the Great Depression.[1] Underly grew up in [South Bend, Indiana](/source/South_Bend,_Indiana).[2] Underly started her career by working in her father's butcher shop.[3] Underly attended [Southwestern Michigan College](/source/Southwestern_Michigan_College) for two years.[2] Then she worked at Martin's Super Market in South Bend, starting in 1988 and was eventually accepted into the apprentice meat cutter's program.[2] Underly worked as an [apprentice](/source/Apprenticeship) for three years.[4] She did experience [sexism](/source/Sexism) at work, with some men refusing to train her.[5] However, her ability to cut meat allowed her to make enough money to put herself through college.[6] She graduated from [Indiana Wesleyan University](/source/Indiana_Wesleyan_University) in 1995.[2] Underly started working with the [National Cattlemen's Beef Association](/source/National_Cattlemen's_Beef_Association) (NCBA) in 1997 to create pricing software for retailers.[2] Later, she worked with NCBA to create new cuts of steak, including the [flatiron steak](/source/Flat_iron_steak) and the Denver Cut.[2][7] In 2002, she started Range, Inc. in [Fulton Market](/source/Fulton_Market_District) in [Chicago](/source/Chicago) where she is the [CEO](/source/Chief_executive_officer).[8] Underly has also taught classes on how to butcher animals.[5][9] She developed online training.[10] In 2011, she published a book, *The Art of Beef Cutting*, which was a [James Beard Foundation Award](/source/James_Beard_Foundation_Award) finalist.[2] The book deals with the basic principals of meat cutting and includes 450 color photos of each cut.[7] ## References 1. Strassburger 2013, p. 45. 1. Yue, Lorene (11 June 2012). ["She's a Cut Above the Others"](http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bwh&AN=76665829&site=ehost-live). *Crain's Chicago Business*. **35** (24). – via EBSCOhost. 1. Strassburger 2013, p. 40. 1. Schultz 2017, pp. 8–9. 1. Slade, Rachel (31 October 2016). ["The male-dominated meat industry is in need of skilled labor. Why not women? - The Boston Globe"](https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2016/10/31/the-male-dominated-meat-industry-need-skilled-labor-why-not-women/XLp98AH5Im49oDT7fnCyCI/story.html). *Boston Globe*. Retrieved 2020-11-28. 1. Inge, Leoneda (8 December 2014). ["Women butchers are slicing through the meat world's glass ceiling"](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/12/08/npr-women-master-butchers). *MPR News*. Retrieved 2020-11-28. 1. ["The Art of Beef Cutting"](http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=voh&AN=69634764&site=ehost-live). *Food Management*. **46** (11): 39. 2011. – via EBSCOhost. 1. Schultz 2017, p. 7. 1. Jackson, Cheryl V. (1 July 2015). ["Muscolo Meat Academy wants to feed growing demand for butchers"](https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/blue-sky/ct-muscolo-meat-academy-bsi-20150701-story.html). *Chicago Tribune*. Retrieved 2020-11-28. 1. Gough, Cherie (2019-07-29). ["These 6 Women Are Breaking Barriers In The Meat Industry"](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-butchers-meat_l_5d385cc2e4b020cd994ca742). *HuffPost*. Retrieved 2020-11-28. ### Sources - Schultz, Kevin (2017). ["Pork Quality Relates Back to Knowledge"](http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=123907240&site=ehost-live). *National Hog Farmer*. **6** (6): 6–10. – via EBSCOhost. - Strassburger, Suzanne (2013). ["Cut From Her Own Cloth"](http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=90020344&site=ehost-live). *National Provisioner*. **227** (9): 40–45. – via EBSCOhost. ## External links - [Interview](https://justcook.butcherbox.com/women-in-the-meat-industry-a-conversation-with-kari-underly-of-range/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kari Underly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Underly) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Underly?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.