American Lunch
A lobster roll on the Cape, a smash burger off a flat-top, a green-chile cheeseburger you eat over a paper plate. The midday meal is where regions argue out loud.
Featured american lunch recipes
- Cold-pack lobster roll — Eli Hart · Wellfleet, MA · Eli, on butter or mayo, and why one of those is wrong.
- Tavern-style smash burger — Iris · Milwaukee, WI · A flat-top, a press, eighty seconds. The crust is the entire point.
- Green-chile cheeseburger — Elena Romero · Santa Fe, NM · Hatch chile on the burger and on the bun. Two kinds of green.
- Cuban sandwich, pressed — Iris · Tampa, FL · Roast pork, ham, swiss, mustard, pickle, and a press that does not rest.
- Fried-shrimp po’ boy — Iris · New Orleans, LA · French bread, gulf shrimp, dressed all the way.
- Pastrami Reuben on rye — Iris · New York, NY · Hot pastrami, sauerkraut, swiss, Russian. The deli rules.
- Chicken noodle soup, slow — Iris · Iowa · A whole bird, two carrots, three hours. The cure is patience.
- Cobb salad, all the rows — Iris · Los Angeles, CA · Bacon, blue, avocado, egg, chicken, tomato. A Brown Derby diagram.
- Crab roll, Connecticut-style — Eli Hart · Stonington, CT · Eli, briefly: a crab roll is not a lobster roll. Treat it differently.
- The turkey club, three-decker — Sam Liu · Berkeley, CA · Sam, on the diner sandwich that became a cliché and then earned it back.
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