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charolais

Compliments To The Elliott & Ferris Families

March 22, 2007

My colleagues, Carl and Christopher Cosack, visited a Colorado ranch recently and sent me back some samples of the ranch’s dry-aged, grain-finished Charolais and Charolais-cross rib-eye steaks. I was saving the steaks for a special blind taste testing party but my husband didn’t know this and accidentally cooked one up. Hats off to the Elliott [...]

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1,000 Breeds of Cattle (!)

February 23, 2007

This book sounds amazing so I ordered it up. Written by Marleen Felius, a Dutch author and illustrator, it has over 800 pages with information, photographs, and illustrations covering more than 1,000 breeds of cattle. 15 months back, when I began my quest for the perfect organic steak, I knew the name of a single [...]

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