Wagyu beef ◆

Bœuf wagyu

What it is

Closed Japanese bloodlines bred for a century until the marbling threads through the muscle like frost on a window — graded to the strictest scale in meat, up to A5. The legends of beer rations and daily massages are mostly folklore; the miracle is genetics, and fat that melts below body temperature.

In the kitchen

Forget the steakhouse slab: cut thin, sear seconds on cast iron, salt only. A little goes far — this is meat to eat by the slice, like a great ham.

Goes with

Soy sauce Rice Black pepper Garlic

Same species

Abura-kasu Amourettes (spinal marrow) Spider steak Bastourma Flank steak Beef

Also used with

Hoba leaf (magnolia leaf)

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