Lobel's Meat Bible

Even to people that consider themselves competent cooks and knowledgeable about meat, this book is a very useful compendium of facts and recommendations from an unimpeachable source. You usually find bits of this information scattered throughout numerous cookbook sections, but I have found it useful to have them all in one place. Oh- and the recipes are awesome as well!!! now if I could only get some of the famous Lobell beef way down here in Florida........

This book is a must for anyone that enjoys cooking. The information and recipes are fantastic. I recommend this to both beginner and advanced cooks. I have purchased two as gifts.

It was just what I was expecting! I loved it and it made the perfect gift and had great pictures and details!

I like the book very much. Lots of great things to do with meat without being difficult. I especially like the way the chapters start out with explanations on all the different cuts of meat. A great book.

This book brought me nothing but frustration. I was expecting the alpha and omega of meat, but got a picture book without any pictures.If you are going to title your book any kind of "<fill in the blank> BIBLE: All you need to know" I want to see a meat creation story, the ten commandments of meat written by the finger of the butcher God, I want to see the friggin parting of the red meat sea. I want to see a diagram of meat cuts, the quality each cut of meat yields, what its best uses are and WHY. I want to know what types of cows are used and which are best; the flavor and texture differences between grass and grain fed, 1-year, 2-year, and 3-4 year cattle. I want to know how aging is done, how if at all possible to do it in my barn, and what it does for the quality of the meat. I want to know the different effects of slow cooking, smoking, grilling, and roasting. The pluses and minuses of a marinade over a dry rub, how to best infuse flavors into red and white meat. This is not the greatest meat story ever told; it's the interrupting cow knock, knock joke.Now it is excessively easy to be a critic, to take apart what other people have done, and I sincerely apologize to the Lodel's for doing it. I can read through the book and see what the Lobel's wanted to do, what they started to do, and what they were steered away from doing probably by a consumer focused publisher. If you are looking for cursory knowledge about meat cuts with some alright recipes here and there, this book is helpful. But if you want redemption, if you are looking for the carnivorous connoisseurs sermon on the mount, this is not the book for you.