Beef by Rimas, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Introduction

How to Eat Beef Culinary Interlude: Rib Eye Steak Big Trouble in the Beef Business

Section 1

Chapter 1

The Thread in the Labyrinth: Picasso’s Minotaur and the Spirit of Cattle What Is a Cow? Culinary Interlude: Nine Primal Cuts Domestication: How the Cows Came Home Meat, Milk, Muscle, and Dung Pity and Fear: Ernest Hemingway’s Bullfights The Coconut Theory of Animal Husbandry The Reddest Meat of All Culinary Interlude: Bull’s Tail Stew Delamere’s Cattle

Chapter 2

Bull Gods on Hadrian’s Wall Culinary Interlude: A Mithraic Dinner with Meatballs First Rites Early Myths and Legends: The Cattle of the Sun and the Bull of Heaven Culinary Interlude: Homeric Roast Beef Early Myths and Legends Explained (Part I): Metamorphoses Early Myths and Legends Explained (Part II): A Man of His Times The Bible’s One, True Bull God Culinary Interlude: A Fatted Calf The Cattle of the Sun, Revisited A Lucky Killing

Chapter 3

King Servius Tullius Strikes Gold Cow Heroes: Rustling for Fun and Profit Culinary Interlude: Prophecy Broth Monks and the Rise of Cheese Culinary Interlude: Cheddar Culinary Interlude: A Catalog of Noble Cheeses A Medieval Banquet Culinary Interlude: Beef y-Stywyd, or the Ribs of Henry IV Cow Villains: The Reivers Ole Lemurt’s Hero

Section 2

Chapter 4

A Perfect Teat: Dutch Milkers Culinary Interlude: Jersey Cream and Fresh Berries “All Is Useless That Is Not Flesh…”: Bigger, Better Beeves Culinary Interlude: Lumber Pye Toro Bravo’s Brave New World: The Conquest of New Spain The Woman of Narok

Chapter 5

War, Pandemics, and Famine Culinary Interlude: Steak Tartare Chemical Solutions: Making Food Last Longer Culinary Interlude: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Cowboys and Barbed Wire Culinary Interlude: Barbecue and Beef Jerky Bubbly Creek and the Union Stock Yards Cuchulainn Defeated? Carnivore

Chapter 6

Death of a Small-Town Butcher Two Dodos: The Beef and Milk Industries Today Culinary Interlude: The American Hamburger A Dry Future The Criollo Solution Ethical Eating Meden Agan: Japanese Wagyu Beef Culinary Interlude: Wagyu Sashimi Titus Salt, the Great Paternalist

Epilogue Acknowledgments Endnotes Searchable Terms About the Authors Credits Copyright About the Publisher