Iowa's Iconic Sandwich
August is national sandwich month. Here’s a related story from the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) America Eats project records housed in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. During the Great Depression one of FDR’s New Deal Program was the WPA. It hired unemployed writers. America Eats was one of research projects they worked on. Iowa’s culinary culture is best described as pork meat centered. There’s a healthy competition throughout the state even today for who makes the best breaded pork chop tenderloin sandwich.
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