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Roadfood Sandwiches: Recipes and Lore from Our Favorite Shops Coast to Coast By Jane SternMichael Stern ( Houghton Mifflin )
Release Date: 2007-05-02
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Product Description
Now you can re-create the best and most inventive sandwiches in America right in your own kitchen. In this eating tour of the nation, those gurus of the road, Jane and Michael Stern, hunt down nearly 100 examples of supreme sandwichery. You'll enjoy mouthwatering discoveries from nearly every state, from California (grilled Gruyère with leeks on multigrain from a neighborhood bakery in Los Angeles) to Maine (an overflowing, warm lobster roll from a seaside diner) to Florida (a Cuban: ham, pork, Swiss, and garlicky salami with pickles, lettuce, and tomato). The Sterns have tracked down America's best muffuletta (cold cuts and cheese topped with a bold and briny olive salad on Italian bread) and the specialty of Louisville, Kentucky (the Hot Brown: white turkey meat under sizzling cheese with tomato and bacon), not to be confused with Hot Truck (a hot pizza sub baked open-face, a campus sensation in Ithaca, New York). Each of the legendary heroes, hoagies, wraps, grinders, blimps, gyros, and subs comes with its own quirky story, making this book as much fun to read as it is to cook from.
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 Great Sandwich book ( dxdmjrd )
It took me a while to decide to buy this book. "Do you really need a cookbook to make sandwiches?" I was asked more than once. Well, just to make sandwiches, no. But this book is so much more. It really is a book about regional differences, which so many critics like to insist are all but dead. I am originally from Pennsylvania and now live in Alaska and have travelled widely all over the country for a job, and I can tell you that America's regions are alive and well, and moreover, are eating widely different things. Since I am interested in what those things might be and why they eat them, I find this sort of collection fascinating. This book did not disappoint me. Although I agree with the other reviewers that pictures would have been nice, we are talking about sandwiches here. Presumably, they will not look all that different. It would have been nice, but for me it is not a dealbreaker.
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Fun to read and cook from ( lisafweeks )
This book, quite obviously, features sandwiches - and a wealth of them! It is a recent publication (May 2007), but the design harkens back to eateries from the `50s and `60s. It truly reads as if you are sitting with a good friend while they tell you about all the best sandwiches they've ever eaten while traveling North America. The authors paint a vivid picture that more than makes up for the missing photos.
You get the history of the diner, the sandwich, or the proprietor, plus the recipes to recreate them at home. We thoroughly loved the Ham and Pear Crisp from Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis MN. I've earmarked the Hoosier Tenderloin, the Green Tomato BLT, and Old-Fashioned Beer Battered Brains (just kidding on that last one!). Since it is easy to search the book by location, the next time I travel, I'll use it to seek out the best food.
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 Where are the photos? ( ravecomm )
I have bought J & M's books for years. Very disappointed that this had no photos.
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Sometimes good things come............. without pictures
I borrowed this book form the library and I too was disappointed that it didn't have picture. Like so many other people I enjoy eating with my eyes. I tossed it aside at first. In a bored moment, i went back to it. Not only did i find the stories entertaining, I could see potential in the recipes as well. Since I have made several of the sandwiches from it and they have turned out wonderful. You do have to spend a bit of time reading the recipes in the beginning to familiarize yourself with it, but like myself, you will quickly find ones that you will make again and again. Some of the recipes I find fascinating but no way in h*ck would I ever make it (think fried brains sandwich).
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 Low Budget Affair ( songoose )
Sandwiches are one of my favorite things in the world, so when I heard that the professors of roadfood were writing a sandwich book, I was thrilled. Like "Roadfood", however, I was disappointed. There are NO pictures at all in this book. What kind of a cookbook has ZERO pictures in it??? Now that they are successful authors (book and magazine, btw), I would expect something a little more upscale from the Sterns.
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