“Kobe” Beef Sliders

Kobe beef sliders began turning up a few years ago at marquee restaurants in New York City and Los Angeles. The irony of this was not lost on anyone who has eaten a “slyder” at one of the sixty-plus White Castle burger joints around the United States. Imagine small, thin, gray, square patties of ground beef, “steam grilled” (griddled) with onion and served on equally diminutive soft buns. The term slyder, coined shortly after the first White Castle opened in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921,