The holiday season is a stressful time, what with all the chestnuts to roast, snowmen to reanimate, and ghosts of Christmas past to reckon with—but all is salvageable as long as you and yours don’t get hangry. Even if you put everything else off until the last minute, we recommend doing future you a favor and ordering the beef now.| Meat Matters
For many years, Americans were taught to fear fat, with fatty foods getting the blame for our country’s obesity epidemic, among other health issues. But studies have since made it clear that there is a fatty spectrum, with trans fats on the unhealthy side, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats on the healthy side, and saturated fats falling somewhere in the middle (or even leaning to the healthy side, depending on whom you ask). Red meat often contains high levels of saturated fat, but i...| Meat Matters
No matter how you slice it, Wagyu beef is some of the best money can buy. But wait. There’s definitely a right way to slice it, and that’s against the grain. Although even improperly sliced Wagyu is likely to be wonderfully tender, it doesn’t hurt to take a moment and navigate the grain before slicing.| Meat Matters