Tom Mylan (born April 26, 1976) is an American butcher, educator, writer, and author, specializing in local, sustainably raised meat.
He was raised in Reno, Nevada; at age 12 his family moved to Orange County, California.
[5] By 2005 he was worked at Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth's Marlow & Sons cafe in New York, as a buyer and manager.
[5] Mylan agreed to learn butchering from Fleisher's at the Applestone Meat Company in Upstate New York.
[2][3] His co-founders and partners at The Meat Hook included Brent Young and Ben Turley.