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The lamb pastrami at the two month-old Smith Street restaurant Char No. 4 is made only in the spirit of regular pastrami, which is usually made with brisket (brisket's usually beef; a chest cut). Chef Matt Greco—who worked for Gray Kunz and Andrew Carmellini—first brines a hunk of lamb shoulder for a week. After that he makes a roulade, coats it with magic Greco spice and smokes it in-house, where it's plated with a tangle of pickled onion and greens, coriander aioli, and rye-caraway toast. From the looks of the photo above, it might be tempting to call the dish some kind of post-modern rift on the gastro-ethno-geographic terrain of old New York, but Greco's attention to his craft yields nothing but clean and bright flavors, and the whole thing is amazingly good. Like, $12 good.

Scott Gold loves meat and isn't afraid to admit it. This New Orleans native is so passionate about meat that he took on the daunting yet often delicious task of attempting to eat 31 different types of meat in 31 days and to eat his way through various parts of a cow (which he lovingly calls the tour de boeuf), all for the sake of his heartfelt and often hilarious tribute to meat, The Shameless Carnivore. We caught up with Scott over some barbecue to get his thoughts on all things meaty.