As William Shakespeare once wrote in "Romeo & Juliet": "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." While he probably wasn't referring to corned beef, exactly, ...

Corned beef is salt-cured beef brisket. It can be dry-cured with “corns,” or large grains of salt, which is how it got its name, but it can also be cured in a salty brine. Originally, before ...