Of all the confusion meat in Israel seems to cause, the piece that creates the most head-scratching seems to be the #9. It has two different names which are not synonyms for the same piece, nor do the...Read More
Last week, I got very excited that I found truffles in Machane Yehuda. I went ahead and bought them, but as I was working with them, my expectations weren’t being met. Turns out, I was wrong....Read More
The general shape of a cow hasn’t changed since Creation. After a while though, it gets boring eating the same thing the same way millennium after millennium. So butchers and chefs have looked f...Read More
It has been quite a while since I’ve added to the meat chart, but I was given a cut of meat to prepare that I might have occasionally overlooked, probably because it was being sold under somewha...Read More
So a while ago my wife brought home a #4. Well, some chunk of a #4. It seems that someone, somewhere had a good idea. They apparently cut down a very large #4 so that they could sell it in pieces, pro...Read More