![]() ![]() His favorite? “I’ll go with the Top Notch in Brookston, in part for sentimental reasons,” he said. When the former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels first ran for that post, in 2004, he subtitled a book on his campaign odyssey: “16 Months of Towns, Tales and Tenderloins.” At a joint called Smitty's, not far from the Des Moines airport, you’d do well to take one with onions, pickles and mustard.īut Iowa does not have the only claim on the tenderloin. The most glorious dish in Iowa is the pork tenderloin sandwich: flattened, battered, deep-fried and served between hamburger buns that cannot hope to contain the protruding porcine goodness. Thanks to the pernicious influence of the Iowa State Fair, a signature event on the state’s political calendar, many outsiders believe the state’s delicacy is some novelty fare like deep-fried butter. What makes a sandwich? Sam Sifton’s full introduction to the guide. Join us on Facebook to post comments, ask questions or tell us which sandwiches we missed. There are sandwiches made on sliced bread.Īnd there are what we call “singulars,” which are those creations on bread that falls outside these other groups but are still vital to the sandwich landscape, like the muffuletta. ![]() There are sandwiches made on long hero or sub rolls. There are sandwiches made on Kaiser or “hard” rolls. There are five main families of sandwich in The New York Times Field Guide. The bread that encases them is neither split nor hinged, but wrapped. Open-faced sandwiches are not sandwiches. ![]() Qdoba, a Massachusetts judge declared were not sandwiches at all. ![]() The same holds for hot dogs, and for tacos and burritos, which in 2006, in the case known as Panera v. A hamburger is a marvelous sandwich, but it is one deserving of its own guide. Here is a celebration of the sandwich’s diversity in the United States, an attempt to bring order to the wild multiplicity of its forms.īut first: What is a sandwich? The United States Department of Agriculture declares: “Product must contain at least 35 percent cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread.” But a sandwich does not require meat! Merriam-Webster is slightly more helpful: “two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between.”įor the purposes of this field guide, we have laid down parameters. ![]()
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