Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef Review
Should you be judging this book by its cover, you would be expecting to find scores of recipes using steak as the protagonist. Leafing through its pages, you'll find none. This book is not about cooking.
You may get discouraged by the nearly three hundred pages of what appears to be dry text unbroken by recipes, sidebars or illustrations. But read the first sentence and you are so hooked with this book that it is hard to put aside.
The writing is superb, entertaining, witty and most enjoyable, and each chapter is filled with dozens of stories and fascinating descriptions about and related to steak. The writer takes the reader on a journey through seven countries, exploring their beef and particularly their steak. The stories run like a river runs - smoothly flowing through varied landscapes with a surprise at every bend. Well-researched culinary history is sprinkled throughout.
This book reads almost like a novel. I think even a strict vegetarian or dedicated vegan would enjoy it. This is delicious reading for anyone - and the perfect gift for the devoted beef aficionado.
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The definitive book on steak has never been written-until now
"Of all the meats, only one merits its own structure. There is no such place as a lamb house or a pork house, but even a small town can have a steak house." So begins Mark Schatzker's ultimate carnivorous quest. Fed up with one too many mediocre steaks, the intrepid journalist set out to track down, define, and eat the perfect specimen. His journey takes him to all the legendary sites of steak excellence-Texas, France, Scotland, Italy, Japan, Argentina, and Idaho's Pahsimeroi Valley-where he discovers the lunatic lengths steak lovers will go to consume the perfect cut. After contemplating the merits of Black Angus, Kobe, Chianina, and the prehistoric aurochs-a breed revived by the Nazis after four hundred years of extinction-Schatzker adopts his own heifer, fattens her on fruit, acorns, and Persian walnuts, and then grapples with ambivalence when this near-pet appears on his plate.
Reminiscent of both Bill Bryson's and Bill Buford's writing, Steak is a warm, humorous, and wide-ranging read that introduces a wonderful new travel and food writer to the common table.
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