Egg and Cheese sandwiches are nothing new, from Mickey D’s famed McMuffin to your favorite corner deli or street cart. However, as New York Magazine has just pointed in a mouthwateringly delicious slideshow, this greasy portable treat is the latest to get a gourmet makeover.
As I pointed out in my review of Egg in Williamsburg, the famed Country Ham Biscuit is the main reason I need to go back and is one of the nine featured examples from NY Mag.
Country Ham Sandwich at Egg
Now if only someone were to come up with a portable version of Eggs Benedict, I’d be in brunch heaven.
according to wikipedia, the egg mcmuffin is supposed to be a portable eggs benedict…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggs_Benedict
“The McDonald’s Egg McMuffin was created by Herb Peterson, a McDonald’s franchisee, in 1972. As a friend of Ray Kroc’s, he knew that Kroc liked eggs Benedict. Peterson sought to create a “poor man’s version” by replacing the hollandaise with a slice of American cheese. To cook the eggs, Peterson paid a local blacksmith $90 to make a batch of Teflon coated rings.[32] Mainly due to the success of the Egg McMuffin, McDonald’s had a monopoly on the fast-food breakfast market until the mid-1980s.”
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