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Arkansas Cheese Dip
The orange restaurant dip of central Arkansas: mild green chiles, cumin and a pound of American cheese taken to a pour that holds all night over a low flame.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 280 per serving
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Butte Pork Chop Sandwich
A thin boneless loin cutlet dipped in a loose batter, fried hard and fast, and put on a small soft bun with mustard, pickle and raw onion — nothing else, and no bone anywhere in it.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 770 per serving
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Connecticut Hot Lobster Roll with Butter
Warm picked lobster turned through melted butter off the heat and piled into a griddled split-top roll — no mayonnaise, no celery, and nothing else in the bun.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 615 per serving
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Las Vegas Shrimp Cocktail
Shrimp poached four minutes in a seasoned pot, shocked cold, and packed into a stemmed glass over a sauce built on horseradish rather than sugar.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 156 per serving
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Maine Lobster Roll with Mayonnaise
Cold picked lobster barely dressed with mayonnaise and lemon, piled into a split-top roll whose flat sides have been buttered and griddled crisp.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 442 per serving
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Pan-Fried Hagerman Trout
A whole pan-dressed rainbow trout in a cornmeal crust, cooked in bacon fat in a hot skillet for four minutes a side, which is all a fish this size ever needed.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 502 per serving
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Philadelphia Cheesesteak
Ribeye sliced thin against a hot griddle, onions cooked down beside it, cheese melted into the pile and the whole thing scooped into a long roll — fifteen minutes of cooking and a great deal of argument nobody has ever settled with a document.
- Total
- 30 min, plus 45 min freezing
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 925 per sandwich
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Pork Roll, Egg and Cheese
Thick slices of cured, smoked pork roll notched at the edge so they fry flat, a fried egg, American cheese melted on the meat in the pan, all of it on a kaiser roll.
- Total
- 20 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 748 per sandwich
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Portland Italian Sandwich
A soft white roll split along the top, laid with ham and cheese and then loaded with raw onion, green pepper, tomato, sour pickle and black olives, finished with oil, salt and pepper.
- Total
- 30 min, including 10 minutes wrapped
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 726 per serving
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Seattle Dog
A grilled frankfurter in a toasted bun spread with cream cheese and buried in griddled onions, built the way the street carts build it, in half an hour on a home griddle.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 500 per serving
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St. Louis Toasted Ravioli
Cheese ravioli breaded in a fine dry crumb and fried straight from the package, showered with Parmesan while the oil is still on them, with red sauce alongside rather than over.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 520 per serving
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Steak de Burgo
Tenderloin medallions cooked hard in butter with garlic and basil, set on French bread so the bread takes everything the pan gives up.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 590 per serving
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Sugar on Snow
Maple syrup boiled past syrup to the wax point and poured in ribbons over packed snow, eaten off a fork with a sour pickle and a plain doughnut between mouthfuls.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 215 per serving
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The St. Paul Sandwich
An egg foo young patty fried lacy at the edges and laid hot on cold white bread with mayonnaise, pickle, tomato and lettuce — the St. Louis takeout sandwich named after a city in Minnesota.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 540 per serving
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Beer Cheese
Sharp cheddar ground smooth with garlic, dry mustard, cayenne and flat beer, then left overnight so the heat comes up — the snappy cheese of the road houses on the Kentucky River.
- Total
- 15 min, plus overnight
- Serves
- 12
- Calories
- 168 per serving
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Cheese Frenchee
A cheese sandwich made with mayonnaise, dipped in batter, rolled in crushed corn flakes and deep fried until the crust cracks and the inside has gone to liquid.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 645 per sandwich
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Chicago Hot Dog, Dragged Through the Garden
An all-beef natural-casing frankfurter steamed rather than boiled, laid in a steamed poppy-seed bun, and buried under seven things added in a fixed order, finishing with celery salt over the lot.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 420 per serving
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Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy
A quarter-inch slice of dry-cured Virginia ham fried until its edges buckle, and the brown crust left in the pan loosened with hot black coffee into a thin, salty, bitter gravy.
- Total
- 20 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 296 per serving
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Fried Okra
Small pods cut into rounds, soaked in buttermilk, tumbled in seasoned cornmeal and fried hard, so the slipperiness that ruins boiled okra becomes the glue that holds the crust on.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 245 per serving
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Fried Onion Burger
A four-ounce ball of chuck with a fistful of paper-thin onion smashed into it on a hot griddle, cooked until the onion has fried into the crust and become half the burger.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 560 per serving
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Pan-Fried Walleye
Skinless walleye fillets in a thin coat of crushed saltines, fried three minutes a side in oil with butter added at the end, and eaten with lemon and nothing else.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 380 per serving
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Reuben Sandwich
Corned beef, Swiss and drained sauerkraut between buttered rye, griddled slowly so the cheese goes before the bread burns.
- Total
- 27 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 755 per sandwich
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Stone Crab Claws with Mustard Sauce
Cold cracked claws and a cold mustard sauce sharp enough to stand up to them — the only cooking is a short boil, and often that has already been done for you.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 420 per serving
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Creamy Garlic Butter Tuscan Chicken
Seared chicken cutlets in a garlic cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, Parmesan and spinach. One skillet, thirty minutes.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 592 per serving
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Spicy Peanut Noodles with Charred Cabbage
Cabbage charred hard in a dry skillet, then tossed with noodles in a peanut sauce loosened with the water they cooked in.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 558 per serving