Chef Thierry sears Olive Wagyu
Chef Thierry tastes Olive Wagyu for the first time and lets the sear speak for itself.
Chef Thierry tastes Olive Wagyu for the first time and lets the sear speak for itself.
A first look at Aomine Farm, one of the handful of producers raising A5 Olive-fed Wagyu in Kagawa Prefecture.
Raised on spent olive pulp on a single Japanese island, Olive Wagyu is rarer than A5 and built on a deeper, richer umami.
One of the rarest steaks in the world, raised on a handful of farms in Japan's Kagawa Prefecture.
The story of how Olive Wagyu came to be — from a small island in Kagawa to the most decorated beef in Japan.
The fat is the point. Olive Wagyu carries the highest levels of oleic acid in beef, and it tastes like it.
Scenes from the 2017 sourcing trip to Kagawa, where the relationships behind our Olive Wagyu program began.
Raised on a handful of farms off Shodoshima Island, in Japan's smallest prefecture — rarer than A5, and more deeply flavored.
A Shinto shrine on Shodoshima marks the spot where, 1,300 years ago, an emperor decreed this island ideal for raising cattle.
Crowd Cow founder Joe Heitzeberg meets with Kagawa's governor on the path that brought Olive Wagyu to the US.
Joe Heitzeberg addresses Kagawa's Governor on the long road from a Hokkaido farm homestay to bringing Olive Wagyu to America.
Inside Ichigo, the only steakhouse in the world built around Olive Wagyu.