What it takes: From the meat counter to the grill

By the time you read this, I will be in Oregon with my grandparents. It has become a tradition for my brother and I to spend the summer with them. Like many years before, this year Grandpa came to visit before taking us back on the train.

Grandpa recently retired as a meat cutter and grew up seeing the process of turning an animal into meat. He said that in his day, the meats were of different...