Meats

 

be fixture on the scene = a person or thing that is well established in the local public life impart = give a quality extra edge = advantage seasoning = salt, herbs, or spices added to food to enhance the flavour firebrick = a brick capable of withstanding intense heat, used especially to line furnaces and fireplaces finish cattle on corn = feed animals to be killed for meat with corn rye = a grass of the wheat tribe (Triticeae) grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop barley = a hardy cereal with coarse bristles marbling = streaks of fat in lean meat