Articles by Carrie Oliver
Carrie Oliver is Founder & CEO of The Artisan Beef Institute and The Oliver Ranch Company. She hosts artisan steak and burger tastings across North America, and often compares artisanal beef to wine, a metaphor I completely endorse. She blogs at http://discoverbeef.blogspot.com and can also be found on Twitter @OliverRanch
The High Priestess of Meat on Commodity Beef
First, allow me to highlight an issue that is rarely raised. Outside of the sheer yuck factor, one very compelling reason to avoid eating commodity ground beef is that it has very little flavor. Per my earlier post, the reason is that large packers do not use flavor as a primary goal in the first place. Instead, their focus is cost control, to produce the lowest cost burgers that you’re still willing to eat.
