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As barbecue season returns, one point of agreement is the importance of starting with great quality meat. That’s where Greenwich Prime Meats comes in.

Smithfield Foods has moved into Eastern Europe, assembling networks of farms, breeding pigs and on fast track and slaughtering them for every bit of meat and muscle; upheaval in hog farm belts of Eastern Europe’s largest countries, Poland and Romania, ranks among continent’s biggest agricultural transformations; it offers window on how Smithfield operates in far-flung outposts; in less than five years, Smithfield has enlisted politicians in Poland and Romania, tapped into European Union farm su…

One Monday a month for the last four years, the Burger of the Month Club has sampled a burger bacon-cheddar whenever available at a different New York restaurant.

Meat and marketing experts spent more than $1.5 million to identify and develop new cuts of beef in an attempt to sell the American consumer something besides steaks and ground beef.

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Bacon-and-date-wrapped hot dogs. Photo: Fork This

Hot dogs are as ubiquitous as Ray Bans this summer, with all-beef franks gracing grills at backyard BBQs and gourmet versions making cameos on restaurant menus. But a hot dog coddled in bacon is a rare treat.

These bacon-wrapped dogs were captured by our friendFork This at a Hot Dog Cookoff before being placed in buns and topped with crushed almonds. Though we have mixed feelings about the crushed-almond topping, these look good enough to eat straight off the grill.

Aptly called Dog Date Afternoon, the heart-attack-inducing treats sadly didn’t take home top (or any) honors, but it’s pretty likely there were none left for their maker to take home, either.

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Health officials in California, Colorado and Wyoming said illnesses might have been caused by beef tainted with salmonella.

The hamburger is a many splendored and spangled dish. And nowhere, perhaps, is the burger more spangled than in Salt Lake City, where it can be found topped with a quarter pound of pastrami.

Americans’ growing sophistication about food is bumping up against a troubled economy. The result: Foodies are applying their rarefied aesthetic to junk food.

A bulgogi burger, using ground beef marinated for a day in Asian seasonings is now on the menu at New York Hot Dog & Coffee in Greenwich Village.

What are gyros anyway, and who made them a ubiquitous feature of Greek menus across the United States?