Quotes About Beef

I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.

My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day.

First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

Once, while shooting in Pune, I decided to experiment and ordered an item named Shepherd's Pie. I thoroughly relished it, only to be later informed that what I had was beef. I couldn't sleep that night! My only consolation was that the cow was English, not Indian!

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

Every dog knew that if you didn't eat beef the moment it was set before you, it had a tendency to escape.

The power of the negative media around the food industry drives my mind to enact a Woody Allen-ish skit whenever faced with a restaurant menu. For instance, beef translates to "mad cow disease," chicken morphs into "avian flu," fish reconstitutes to "mercury poisoning," and vegetarian option becomes "genetically modified crops." I am unsure what to pick, and moreover who I can trust when my selection is made.

What's for dinner?" "Roast beef. I heard it was a woman's body buried on Hamilton Ranch and that her body had been mummified." "Roast beef and mummified should never be used in the same sentence," he joked as he headed toward the refrigerator for a beer.

Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.

It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.

There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.

Slander may be defeated by equanimity; but courageous thoughts will not pay your baker's hill, and fortitude is nowhere considered legal tender for beef.

Pastrami, of Romanian origin, is dried, spiced, and salted beef, smoked over hardwood sawdust and then steamed. The name may come from pastra, the Romanian verb "to preserve.

It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name—corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals.

Rumors spread of possible salt substitutes. In 1862, there was a rumor of a substitute for curing bacon and beef. A newspaper in Alabama reported that pyroligneous acid, a vinegar made from hard wood, could preserve meat.

The beef and pudding are ponderous, and unless there be absolute children in the party there is a difficulty in grafting any special afternoon amusements on the Sunday pursuits of the morning.

I'm not big on red meat.

Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Dry-aging happens when meat has been left to hang out in a temperature- and moisture-controlled environment. Over time, the meat's natural enzymes begin to break down the connective tissue and rid the meat of moisture, which results in a rich, nutty, and tender piece of beef.

Q: What do you call an epileptic cow? A: Beef jerky.

Q: What do you call a cow with no legs? A: Ground beef.

All those milk-fed, hog-fed, beef-fed early years. All those extra hormones we put in our livestock. We'll be seeing toddlers with tits before long.