Six Foods America Does Better Than Europe
November 07, 2010
#1? Beef.
Nothing comes close to USDA Prime. Largely corn-fed, it has a richness of well-fatted flavor and, at its best — aged for weeks in ideal conditions — the primordial smell of animal that cooks up into a tender-but-not-soft slab of sizzling holy goodness. European beef is grass-fed and barely aged at all. And Kobe is just a gimmick, now banned (for Mad Cow fears) from the U.S. anyway.