Culture -- 6 days ago
Try a little tenderness: Charting the rise of Scottish Wagyu beef
Far from the verdant farms of Japan’s Kobe region, Highland Wagyu are rearing their own world-beating beef on the Falkirk-Perthshire border.
In Japan, ‘Wagyu’ is synonymous with great meat — quite literally. In the country’s native tongue, ’Wa’ translates as ‘Japanese’ and ‘Gyu’ as ‘beef’. And prime cuts of their rarefied meat, with its uniquely tender texture and rich, buttery flavour, are sought after the world over. Exports are high, quality is higher and the Japanese people take this majestically marbled, beefy business very, very seriously.
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