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The weird true story of how one eccentric 19th century doctor accidentally invented America’s most iconic TV dinner, and why his all-meat obsession is somehow everywhere again.
Dr. James Henry Salisbury prescribed two to four pounds of beef a day to cure tuberculosis, cancer, and mental illness. He locked six grown men in his house and force-fed them beans. He wrote a bestselling book that launched one of America’s first fad diets. And then he died, completely unaware that his name would end up on 10 million frozen trays sold in year one. This is the origin story of Salisbury steak: from 19th century quack medicine to Civil War field hospital, wartime food renaming, the TV dinner era, and right back to your favorite carnivore influencer’s raw organ feed.
