Author Cedar Sanderson approached me a while back about contributing to a series of posts on her blog. The theme is “Eat This While You Read That.” The idea was that I would recommend a recent book of mine, along with a meal to eat with it. Then she would prepare the meal, photograph it, sample it, and report.
So (somewhat shamefacedly) I recommended Death’s Doors and the most memorable meal in my recent memory, an unusually good hot beef sandwich (also known as a commercial, or a Manhattan, apparently).
It all came out better than I deserve. You can read it here.
I had a meeting at the D&R Cafe in Bagley, MN on Tuesday. The lunch special was the Hot Beef Sandwich. They do it right with real white bread, lumpy mashed potatoes, stringy greasy beef roast cooked into oblivion till even the gristle is tender and commercial grade brown gravy just the way a Hot Beef Sandwich is supposed to be.
Of course I had a hamburger & fries.
Very good. Very good.
A sandwich like great-grandma made, eh?