Where is steak from?

Question

e.g. pasta's from Italy
P.S. please dun give me anwers like: just go to the nearest restaurant!

i dun get u guys! As in, which COUNTRY does it come from???

Answer 1

I would imagine that steak has no certain place that it comes from. People have been eating beef for ever and a day. I would guess that once fire was invented people were eating it. I would venture to say that people ate it even before fire. Hard question to answer, but as long as you're eating it, it's all good!!

Answer 2

Here you go!

A HISTORY OF STEAK

Beef was not an important part of the American diet before the Civil War. Cattle were not indigenous to the Americas, so you could not find cattle in the New World until the Spanish introduced them into in Mexico in 1540. In the 18th century, the Spanish and French colonist began to raise cattle. As the railroads developed, they used trains to transport to herds from San Antonio to New Orleans. However, this industry collapsed because of the cold winter, and 90 percent of the herds were wiped out.
Eventually, technology, animal husbandry, and barbed wire changed the industry. In 1871, a Detroit meat packer named G. H. Hanharmand brought refrigeration railway cars west, transforming the industry. Slaughterhouses had been set up in the Midwest for shipment of meat back to the east where the appetite for beef was beginning to develop. After the Second World War, beef became a symbol of American prosperity. Americans were eating 62 pounds by 1952, 99 pounds by 1960, and an all time high of 114 pounds in 1970. Nowadays, that rate is increasing everyday

Here's the History of the Salisbury Steak!

Food History: SALISBURY STEAK

One of the earliest of the 'health food fadists', Dr. James H. Salisbury, a 19th century English/American physician (1823-1905), wrote 'The Relation of Alimentation and Disease'. He believed that diet was the main factor governing our health, so he created a special food and diet for his patients suffering from anemia, colitis, gout, rheumatism, arteriosclerosis, tuberculosis, and asthma.

He believed that vegetables and starchy foods could produce substances in the digestive system which poison and paralyze the tissues and can cause heart disease, tumors, mental illness and tuberculosis. He claimed our teeth are "meat teeth" and our digestive systems designed to digest lean meat, and that vegetables, fats, starches and fruit should only be 1/3 of our diet. Starch was digested slowly, so it would ferment in the stomach and produce vinegar, acid, alcohol and yeast, all of which were poisonous to our systems. His cure for this was his special diet, including Salisbury Steak, which should be eaten 3 times a day, together with lots of hot water to rinse out the digestive system

Here is his 'recipe':
"Eat the muscle pulp of lean beef made into cakes and broiled. This pulp should be as free as possible from connective or glue tissue, fat and cartilage.....The pulp should not be pressed too firmly together before broiling, or it will taste livery. Simply press it sufficiently to hold it together. Make the cakes from half an inch to an inch thick. Broil slowly and moderately well over a fire free from blaze and smoke. When cooked, put it on a hot plate and season to taste with butter, pepper, salt; also use either Worcestershire or Halford sauce, mustard, horseradish or lemon juice on the meat if desired."

You'll also find this History of Hamburgers very interesting!?

http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/History/HamburgerHistory.htm

All the best!

Cheers!!!!

Answer 3

Any chunky piece of meat is steak. It could be from cow, buffalo, pig, lamb, kangaroo, horse etc. and hence it has no one particular country of origin.

Answer 4

Brazil and Canada are great exporters of beef.

Answer 5

It comes from a cow.

Answer 6

Animal. Beef I think.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak

Answer 8

cow
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Answer 9

I think maybe texas or something. it has to be from the U.S.

Answer 10

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http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_quick_easy/