Expiration dates mean very little. - By Nadia Arumugam - Slate Magazine

February 18 2010, 1:35pm

There's a filet mignon in my fridge that expired four days ago, but it seems OK to me. I take a hesitant whiff and detect no putrid odor of rotting flesh, no oozing, fetid cow juice—just the full-bodied aroma of well-aged meat. A feast for one; I retrieve