On Food and Cooking

preference if not in quantity. (The same transformation can be traced in the French word viande.) One sig ...

the West, the introduction of cattle cars on the railroads, and the development of the refrigerated railroad ...

If meat eating helped our species survive and then thrive across the globe, then it’s understandable why many ...

their protein and starch are locked up in inert storage granules. Meat is thus mouth-filling in a way that ...

recipe books in English call for beef (from the French boeuf), veal (veau), mutton (mouton), and pork (porc). ...

by easily grown starchy grains that are relatively poor in calcium, iron, and protein. With this and the ...

requirements for day-to-day good health. Most people in the West had plenty of food, and life expectancy ha ...

It’s prudent, then, to temper our species’ infatuation with meat. It helped make us what we are, but no ...

collect, and on meats that are grilled, broiled, or fried well done. Oven roasting leaves relatively ...

PAH hazard can be minimized by grilling over wood only when it has been reduced to coals, by leavin ...

Meat and Food-Borne Infections Beyond the possibility that it may chip away at our longevity by contributing ...

single infected carcass is more likely to contaminate others. Most bacteria are harmless and si ...

animal by-products (feathers, viscera) as feed for the next generation of animals, and crowding the animals tog ...

calves, and other animals, but has little if any effect on them. Ground beef is by far the most common source ...

in this range for more than two hours. Buffet dishes should be kept hot, and leftovers promptly re ...

meat; aiming for 150ºF/65ºC gives reasonable safety margin. Trichinae can also be eliminated by frozen storage fo ...

began to cause brain disease in the cattle. Humans are not susceptible to sheep scrapie. But there’s a mainly he ...

diseased cattle have turned up elsewhere in Europe, as well as in the United States, Canada, and Japan. As a ...

hundreds, and the overall risk of contracting the prion disease from beef appears to be very small. Controversie ...

human health as well. Other innovations involve the animals’ living conditions, which have become increasingly ...