Jersey beef

Jersey is the Channel Islands dairy breed, and the yellow-fat breed. A Jersey clears carotene out of its body poorly, so it accumulates in the fat instead — deep buttercup yellow where another breed on the same feed would be pale cream — and it tastes the way it looks: rich, dairy-like, almost cultured. The carcass is small and the eye of meat modest, and most Jersey beef reaches diners as ex-dairy steak: a cow retired from the milking parlour, put back out on grass to fatten, and hung for weeks, which gives an intensely savoury, nearly cheesy result.