Tap any part of the cow, pick the countries you care about, and see what each cut or organ is called at the butcher counter there.
Beef cuts change names from country to country, and the lines between cuts move too. US tri-tip is close to Brazil's maminha, US skirt steak is Mexico's arrachera, and the top sirloin cap Americans rarely see is Brazil's famous picanha. Pick a part of the cow below to compare names side by side.
Tap a section of the cow, or pick one here:
Card titles use the standard US industry name. Butchers do not always agree, even within one country, and the same word can mean different cuts in different places (vacío, London broil, and posta are good examples). Treat this as a phrasebook for the meat counter, then point at what you want.
24 of 319 names have been checked against a published source so far. Names are being verified one by one.
Picanha is the top sirloin cap, also sold as coulotte or rump cap. Many US butchers trim it into top sirloin steaks, so you may need to ask for it whole.
Each country butchers the carcass along different seams. A name can cover more or less meat than its closest match elsewhere, so treat the names as a phrasebook, not an exact map.
They were compiled from regional butcher-counter usage and are now being checked one by one against published sources such as national meat-industry cut charts. Pages whose names are still being checked say so.
The same idea for the rest of the butcher case.
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