All that Meat
Photograph
All that Meat
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 3/16 in. (23.5 × 15.7 cm)
Paper: 10 1/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.5 × 20.2 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0557
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 4/62 24) ALL THAT MEAT and no potatoes. Buying meet [sic] in France \ requires intimate knowledge of the animal, in this case \ the steer. There are 17 different cuts on display here \ including heart and liver of heifer (Genisse), silver- \ side of beef (gite-gite), a cut around the haunch (bavette) \ and shoulder-blade (paleron). The cheapest is "bourguignon" \ at about 35 cents the pound: the dearest, rump steak and \ "false" filet at about $1.10 per pound. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS
