Beef

Can You Patent A Steak? (Cont'd)

Jacob Goldstein — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:52:00 +0000

"It's an un-obvious chunk of meat that has been sitting there — a little diamond surrounded by a bunch of coal," Steve Price told me last year. "I'd love to tell you more. We just can't."

Today, Price told me everything.

Artist's State-Shaped Steaks Explore Beef's Origins

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:13:00 +0000

If there's one thing we love more than talking about beef here at The Salt, it's visualizing the U.S.'s insatiable appetite for meat through infographics and charts.

So when we ran across Sarah Hallacher's Beef Stakes project over at Fast Company's Co.Design blog, our eyes lit up like the charcoal grill on Super Bowl Sunday.

An art graduate student at New York University, Hallacher has brought into focus the top U.S.

Episode 399: Can You Patent A Steak?

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:08:00 +0000

Tony Mata is a meat inventor; his job is figuring out new things to do with meat. He thinks he recently discovered a new steak — a novel way to cut up a chunk of beef that's currently not worth much. Mata is so excited about his discovery that he's trying to patent it.

This raises a basic question: Can you patent a steak?

On today's show, we talk to Mata. We visit the workshop of Gene Gagliardi, the inventor of Steak-Umm and KFC's popcorn chicken.

So, Who Sent Those Sick Cows To The Slaughterhouse?

Daniel Charles — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:09:00 +0000

Federal regulators and fast-food companies reacted with unprecedented speed this week to the release of an undercover video that animal-rights activists shot inside a California slaughterhouse. The video — which, we'll warn you, is pretty graphic — shows employees of Central Valley Meat Co. using electric prods repeatedly on cattle that appeared unable to get to their feet.

What A Very Old Menu Tells Us About The Price Of Steak

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Delmonico's, the New York City steakhouse, has been around forever.

The New York Public Library's archival menu collection doesn't go back quite that far. But it does have a Delmonico's menu from 1918. The archive also, sort of randomly, has a Delmonico's menu from 1988.