Jeremy Maddux’s Reviews > Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef > Status Update

'Sensory evaluations have proven the supremacy of marbling time and again. American meat scientists believe in marbling the way American physicists believe in atoms and American biologists believe in cells. It’s at the leading edge of research where things get more interesting, where beneath the refreshingly hard-and-fast truths like marbling awaits a world of intrigue and complexity.'

I knew of Italians who get into raised-voice arguments over buffalo-milk mozzarella versus cow-milk mozzarella, Spaniards who feed acorns to pigs to make the ham more delicious, and Americans who take barbecue so seriously it has become a competitive sport. So what was going on with steak? Had modern agriculture bled the flavor out in the name of efficiency and profit margins?