The Secret to the Perfect Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Isn’t the Ingredients
There’s a reason you love a breakfast sandwich you get at a deli, cart, or coffee shop so much. And it’s not in the bacon, eggs, or cheese.
Photographer: Johnny Autry, courtesy of Catskills Diner Holdings L.L.C. and Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House
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If there’s a dish that doesn’t need a recipe, it’s a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich. Even the most basic cook knows how to put one together—it’s the sum of its title ingredients. Its power to get Americans going in the morning is legendary, whether or not hangovers are part of the equation.