Is the Italian beef sandwich the region's signature food? The debate rages in this week's edition of Landmarks in DailySouthtown
Is the Italian beef sandwich the region's signature food? Probably, but a more accurate gauge would take into account the time-honored eating traditions of countless families across a proliferation of cultural backgrounds.
The number of “best” foods around here probably isn’t far removed from population figures. It’s something nearly everyone has a strong opinion about.
Nearly all the recipe books from the second half of the 20th century celebrated the modern conveniences that made food preparation easier for cooks of that era than it had been for their parents. Ingredients such as instant pudding and cans of beef gravy are rampant.As she paged through the old recipe books, one ingredient kept popping up — a sort of casserole cheat code, as the kids say these days. It was enough to exasperate Donley.
Contestants have to submit stories behind the recipes and how they relate to their families, adding “interesting textures and backgrounds” that enrich the foods, she said. In one, siblings in Berwyn created a contest surrounding a traditional Czech fruit dumpling where they had to guess which ones contained fruit from the sour cherry tree out back. Whoever collected the most cherry pits on their plate at the end of the meal was the winner.
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