In Australia, beef steak is available in almost every pub, bistro or restaurant specialising in modern Australian food, and is ranked based on the quality and the cut.

In place of the disappearing apple orchards, large poultry farms appeared, as did modern dairy farms and beef cattle operations.

Whilst the beef produced by pure-bred Highland cattle is exceptionally tender and of high flavour, modern butchery and shopping trends tend to demand a carcass and a cut of meat of a different character.

This allows the hardy Highland cow, grazed upon the rough hillsides of her natural environment, to produce a cross-bred beef calf featuring the tender beef of its mother on a more modern carcass of high commercial value at slaughter, thus rendering a gross margin from her grazing that would have been impossible from other breeds in that environment.

Such cross-bred sucklers, further crossed with a modern beef bull such as a Limousin or Charolais to produce the finest quality beef are one of the mainstays of Scottish commercial beef production.

It is this ability to pass on thrift and gross margin down the beef-breeding cascade that has secured this breed's place as a modern commercial beef breed.

Some trace the origins of the modern ( U. S. based ) roast beef sandwich as far back as 1877, with the then little known " beefsteak toast " recipe: cold beef, bread and gravy dish.

Common ingredients in the modern version include beef heart, tongue and tripe, and a generous amount of various spices, including Szechuan peppercorns.

The tradition of preparing the meat in this way was revitalised in the late 19th century by the butcher Anders Olsson, whose initiative led to the development of the modern Falukorv, which uses a mixture of pork and beef or veal.

The red braised beef noodles has become the mainstream of beef noodles in modern days.

The modern product consists of small, thin, flexible leaves of partially dried beef, generally sold compressed together in jars or flat in plastic packets.

Like corned beef, pastrami was originally created as a way to preserve meat before modern refrigeration.

For example, beef is related, through borrowing, to modern French bœuf, veal to, pork to, and poultry to.

The dish is traditionally made with thinly sliced beef, though modern preparations sometimes use pork, crab, chicken, duck, or lobster.

Many modern recipes contain beef suet, though vegetable shortening is sometimes used in its place.

The modern Swiss variety is a mixture of beef, bacon and pork rind packed into zebu intestines, slightly smoked and then boiled.

The modern version of this soup originates in France in the 18th century, made from beef broth, and caramelized onions.

Some breeders raise them for their meat, which is significantly leaner than the meat from most modern beef cattle.

Traditionally, the meat was larded with lardons, but modern beef is sufficiently tender and well marbled, so this very time-consuming technique is rarely used any more.

In this article " Beagle " ( with a capital B ) is used to distinguish the modern breed from other beagle-type dogs.

However, the concept of purebred bloodstock and a controlled, written breed registry only became of significant importance in modern times.

He drew the line related to Wolfhounds, and as a result developed a modern breed, Irish Wolfhounds, which are today well established as companions and guards.

Salukis are considered to be one of the oldest dog breeds in existence, with excavations of Sumerian Empire sites between 7000-6000 BC showing carvings and seals that look similar to the modern breed.

Referred to as Slughis, they and the modern Sloughi were treated as the same breed, however in recent years genetic tests have shown that the two breeds are not interbred.

The age of the modern whippet dawned in 1890 when the English Kennel Club granted the breed official recognition, thus making the whippet eligible for competition in dog shows, and commencing the recording of their pedigrees.

Local landowner John Talbot, fought at the Battle of Crécy, and bred the Talbot dog, a breed of small white dog, an ancestor of the modern Beagle.

The modern English Setter owes its appearance to Mr. Edward Laverack ( 1800 – 1877 ), who developed his own strain of the breed by careful breeding during the 19th century in England and to another Englishman, Mr. R. Purcell Llewellin ( 1840 – 1925 ), based his strain using Laverack's best dogs and outcrossed them with the Duke, Rhoebe and later Duke's littermate Kate bloodlines with the best results.

Jean Mill ( née Sugden ), the person who was later a great influence of the development of the modern Bengal breed, submitted a term paper for her genetics class at UC Davis on the subject of crossbreeding cats in 1946.

The Turkish Van is a longhaired breed of domestic cat that is descended from the landrace of Van cats found near Lake Van in modern Turkey.

Domesticated horses with leopard spotting patterns exists from Ancient Greece through the Early modern period ; the Nez Perce people of what today is the United States Pacific Northwest developed the original American breed.

The modern breed maintains bloodlines tracing to the foundation bloodstock of the registry, and has a partially open stud book that allows addition of some Thoroughbred, American Quarter Horse and Arabian blood.

In modern times, the Pomeranian comes in the widest variety of colors of any dog breed, including white, black, brown, red, orange, cream, blue, sable, black and tan, brown and tan, spotted, brindle, plus combinations of those colors.

An early modern recorded reference to the Pomeranian breed is from 2 November 1764, in a diary entry in James Boswell's Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland.

These paintings depicted a dog larger than the modern breed, reportedly weighing as much as, but showing modern traits such as the heavy coat, ears and a tail curled over the back.

It was in one of these quebradas that breeder Gustavo de la Borda found the horse that was to become the most important modern sire in the breed, Sol de Oro ( Viejo ).

But supporters of the theory contend that enough of the foundational stock is ancient, including the Greyhound and the Khoikhoi dog ( from which the ridged back derives ), that even though it was developed relatively recently and for use with modern firearms, the breed can still be considered to be of a " primitive type ".

The modern usage of the word " stock " might imply that the bird has been tamed and kept as stock for food and merchandise, leading to the belief that this bird is a hybrid breed with its origins in human aviaries ; however this is not the case.

* The Apennine ( sheep ), a modern breed of domestic sheep.

By the start of the 20th century the Fox terrier had altered more towards the modern breed, but in some parts of the country the old style of John Russell's terriers remained and it is from those dogs that the modern Jack Russell type descends.

Several other modern breeds exist that descended from the early Fox Terrier breed, including the Brazilian Terrier, Japanese Terrier, Miniature Fox Terrier, Ratonero Bodeguero Andaluz, Rat Terrier and Tenterfield Terrier.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

New, indeed, is Luther's perception, but not modern, as anyone knows who has ever tried to make intelligible to modern students what Luther was getting at.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??

Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.

It was a fairly modern motel with quite a bit of electrical display in front.

It was still a very big world, despite all the modern cant to the contrary.

The house was modern, large, on five acres.

Airy and bright, the apartment was furnished with good modern furniture, rugs, and draperies.

There was a garage and a modern barn in the rear, all of it standing between two large flat fields planted in early potatoes.

Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.