As carnivorous home cooks know well, hitting that perfect, often elusive medium-rare is all about technique -- and when it comes to nailing an oven-cooked London broil, the key is a pre-cook marinade.

In fact, it's not an English item as far as anyone knows -- in England, 'London broil' doesn't actually mean anything. It's not a dish or a cut of meat either, but rather a type of cooking method ...