Hail to the Beef

Examiner food critic Patricia Unterman continues her occasional series on her culinary adventures around the world and where you can have the international food experience in San Francisco. Today: Argentina. Some go to tango. Some go to bask in the summer sun during the northern winter, explore cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, hike the Andes, drink wine in Mendoza, witness mighty Iguazu Falls - and to take advantage of Argentina’s undervalued peso yielding amazing bargains on everything. I went for the beef.

Unlike American feedlot beef and even American grass-fed beef that must eat silage during part of the year, Argentinean cattle graze on protein-rich grass year round.