As the name says it definitely is the tastiest and loved dish by all the americans.Most recipes include nitrates or nitrites, which convert the natural myoglobin in beef to nitrosomyoglobin, giving a pink color.

The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large-grained rock salt, also called “corns” of salt.

Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product.  It is featured as an ingredient in many cuisines. Beef cured with salt only has a gray color and is sometimes called “New England corned beef.” Sometimes, sugar and spices are also added to corned beef recipes.

In North America, corned beef dishes are associated with traditional Irish cuisine.

However, considerable debate remains about the association of corned beef with Ireland.The U.S. version of corned beef is known in the UK as salt beef.