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    ASK COOK’S COUNTRY

    May 07, 2019 3 minutes
    by Cecelia Jenkins

    Going Against the Grain

    Recipes often call for slicing beef against the grain, but I don’t understand what this means or how to do it. Can you please clarify? –Bridgette Holmes, New York, N.Y.

    If you look closely at a piece of beef, you’ll notice little lines—bundles of closely packed muscle fibers that run parallel to one another. This pattern of fibers is referred to as the

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