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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,207 – Gauging the Doneness of Meat.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,207. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is a dialogue talking about meat and how it is cooked, giving you some important words to describe how meat is cooked that will become very useful to you if you ever go to a restaurant and need to order meat in English. Well, I’m hungry. Let’s get started.

Chris: How do you like your steak?

Ruth: Well done. I don’t like any pink showing