Grown exclusively in the Mie Prefecture in Japan, Matsusaka cattle are raised so their fat achieves the lowest melting point possible. The finest cuts of Matsusaka wagyu have a melting point of 12 degrees Celsius, 8 degrees lower than Kobe.
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Hate to break it to you, but your truffle oil wasn't made from truffles. Your vanilla extract? Well, that's probably just a lab-made derivative of crude oil. And your shaker of Parmesan cheese? It probably has wood pulp inside.
- At over $500 a pound, olive wagyu is one of the most expensive meats you can buy.
- There are only 2,500 heads of olive wagyu cattle on the island of Shodoshima.
- Farmer Masaki Ishii feeds his cattle waste from local olive oil groves.
Olive wagyu has been called the rarest