“Like everything in life, fat needs time to get better.”

Now Publican Quality Meats butcher Rob Levitt is getting into it. Earlier this week he took possession of a carcass from a seven-year old Holstein dairy cow raised and milked on Michigan grass and procured by a fellow named Eric Shevchenko, who runs an operation called Old World Farms out of the Mitten with the aim of getting midwestern mature beef into the hands of chefs and butchers. 

“Yeah, we’re working on retail packaging [and] looking for places to start putting it into retail locations.