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July 2nd, 2020 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 19,450 times • 1 min read
Kobe Beef is iconic. You could visit the Medina of Fez, a pool hall in Kiev or a village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and ask almost anyone â and they would tell you theyâve heard of Kobe Beef. There are few things in the culinary world as highly regarded or as rare. Itâs scarcity has contributed to its overall aura. Only a relatively small group of farmers and processors in Hyogo Prefecture are qualified to raise it, and each calf...
September 20th, 2019 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 19,402 times • 1 min read
Crowd Cow is proud to bring you Japan's most award-winning Wagyu to America for the first time for sale online: Iwate Wagyu. In Japan, there are hundreds of locally-produced varietals of Japanese Wagyu. And like wine regions in Europe, each have their own unique characteristics, histories and flavor profiles influenced by how the animals are raised, what they eat and the terroir. Donât believe me? Consider only that the humble cow is much...
March 28th, 2018 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 19,002 times • 1 min read
If youâre a true steakophile, you might have heard of Kobe beef. But even if youâre extremely in the know when it comes to exquisite steak, youâve probably never heard of Olive Wagyu. Itâs a small-batch variety of steak produced only in the far reaches of Japanâs Kagawa Prefecture, and raised on a diet of caramelized pressed olives. It takes the insane marbling of Japanese beef, delivers even higher-than-normal levels of healthy...
November 7th, 2017 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 46,672 times • 1 min read
It's the Olympic Games you've never heard of. Since 1966, Japan's beef industry has held a nationwide competition every five years to crown the best beef in the country. It's called Zenkoku Wagyu Noryku Kyoshin-kai (ĺ ¨ĺ˝ĺçč˝ĺĺ ąé˛äź) but it's known also as "The Wagyu Olympics." There are 11 prize categories, one of the more interesting of which measures the quality of the fats (looking for things like the health-promoting and umami-generating oleic...
