Travel and food writer Mark Schatzker has a new book coming out called Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Meat.
Providing a preview of the book in the Wall Street Journal, Schatzker complained, "All anyone seems to know about steak today is this: It doesn't have much flavor. The great American steak is great in name only."
To get a great steak, Schatzker says, you have to know three things:
- How old was the cow when slaughtered? (It should be at least 20 months.)
- How much did it weigh? (It should weigh more than 1,000 pounds.)
- What breed is it? (It is not good if it is Charolais or Limousin. You want Hereford, Galloway or Angus unless you are very rich and can buy grass-fed Wagyu.)
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