In this recipe, a long marinating time allows many powerful ingredients to penetrate the skirt steak: the acid in balsamic vinegar and Worcestershire sauce doesn’t just flavor the meat; it also breaks down connective tissues, making the meat tender.

For dinner tonight, try Alton Brown’s Swiss Steak cutlets from Good Eats on Food Network, cooked in bacon drippings and smothered in an oniony beef gravy.

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Traditional recipe with ingredients that have been updated to ones more accessible to us in the USA but this is the same recipe and method …

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Alton Brown’s Skirt Steak recipe, from Good Eats on Food Network, marinates a thin cut in soy sauce for maximum flavor. Alton’s special tool? A blow dryer!

Food Network host Alton Brown reports on a company that’s created a plausible meat substitute with the texture of real flesh.

Get the recipe for Alton Brown’s Eggplant Pasta. You’ll get all the flavor of eggplant parmesan in just 60 seconds.

Unlike most American cooks, I am woefully inexperienced when it comes to cooking meat. I guess we seldom (if ever) grilled meat at home growing up. My mom never made large roasts in the oven, or baked a whole chicken.

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