The Menu: Get your teeth into making the most of meat

"Many younger consumers can only tell what part of what animal they are purchasing by the package label detailing both creature and cut."

Presuming you’re a meat eater, when was the last time you went to the butcher’s? Note, I didn’t ask, when was the last time you ate meat as, these days, the bulk of the nation’s meat for home consumption is now purchased in the supermarket.

Whereas our grandparents were so familiar with the inside of a butcher’s shop — or multiple butchers’ shops, when ‘shopping around’ was de rigueur — they could probably reassemble an entire carcass from the constituent cuts laid out at the counter, most of us now buy our meat in the supermarket; the supermarkets, in turn, mostly buy it in already shrink-wrapped from the processor.