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Salad Days


 
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Danish Smoked Herring, Beet, and Potato Salad Enlarge Image Credit: Michael Kraus
Sandwiches and salads, both seen as fancy foods, became so closely associated with each other in the Victorian period that it was inevitable that they would end up together. By the 1870s, in Manhattan, chicken, egg, and other salad sandwiches were appearing on hotel menus and, later, on the bills of fare at pubs and cafés.Today, the combination of creamy, savory filling and soft bread spans classes and cuisines—from the chicken salad sandwiches of New York's ladies who lunch to the egg and mushroom salad eaten in Russia on thick-sliced rustic bread. —Ben Mims


Danish Smoked Herring, Beet, and Potato Salad

This article was first published in Saveur in Issue #137

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Hi,
why didn't you get a Swedish sandwich recipe? We have loads of good ones!! :)
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I'm glad to see that the Eisenberg's egg salad made the sandwich issue, if only on one of the side dish pages. Their masterpiece IMHO is their egg salad BLT on rye.

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