No beef with beef Muggy Murphy doesn't beat around the bush.(Food)(Cook of the week)

Byline: Laura Bianchi Muggy Murphy has nothing personal against chicken, pork and fish, but she'll take beef just about any day. Healthy as a cow, if you'll pardon the expression, and energetic as a calf, 71-year-old Muggy (pronounced "moogy") steers her meals toward beef, even recipes that call for chicken.

"Between sandwiches at lunch and dinners, we can eat it five to six times a week, easy," she says of her family. "When people say they haven't had beef in years, well, they don't know what they're missing, but to each his own." That ...

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