Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Spanglish Sandwich

I was just now craving a sandwich and was thinking about the part in the movie spanglish where Adam Sandler creates a mid-night snack sandwich that literally got my mouth watering just watching him make it and then I thought about it just now and began craving it.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/stolrsky/shared/spanglish_sandwich.mov
click link above to see the part of the movie that got us all craving that delicious sandwich.
So I tried looking up that sandwich just now and turns out I wasn't the only one that craves that sandwich.
When James L. Brooks wrote the screenplay for his film "Spanglish" he included in the stage directions the notation that the hero of his film, a culinary genius, would make "a snack we will remember and copy." By the time the script got to the actor, Adam Sandler, the snack was expected to be something that "everyone in the audience would want to eat at home." And by the time it got to the professional chef who was the advisor on the film it was expected to be "the world's greatest sandwich."
And so it fell to Thomas Keller, whose Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry is a landmark in California cuisine, not only to create this amazing snack but also to train Adam Sandler, who had never cooked before, to make it so well on screen that his character would contemplate it and exclaim, "Oh -- Baby" even before taking a bite. This tall order was met so well that almost from the moment the film was released people began sharing the recipe, and the sandwich began appearing on the internet as well as on menus of trendy restaurants.
so here you go here's the recipe and a video tutorial as well.

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