If you're a meat lover, chef, or foodie with a passion for protein, chances are you've heard of -- and perhaps even savored --- the world's most expensive cut of beef: Japanese Kobe beef. Renowned ...

Where’s the beef? Four decades away. Thought the wait times for cronuts were ludicrous? The “Extreme Croquette,” a hyper-affordable potato and Kobe beef-filled disc, is so popular that people wait up ...

If you are puzzled, exasperated or suspicious about the ubiquity of the ultra-rare Japanese beef called Kobe that now seems to appear on every steakhouse and high-end restaurant menu in America, ...

If you order a box of frozen Kobe beef croquettes from Asahiya, a family-run butcher shop in Takasago City in western Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, it’ll take another 38 years before you receive your ...

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