HISTORY AND REVIEW, REUBEN SANDWICH BY JIM BAUDO

Folks in Omaha, NE. claim that a wholesale grocer named Reuben Kulakofsky created the sandwich at 302 SOUTH 36 TH. ST. AT Omaha's Blackstone Hotel back in AROUND 1925, to feed players in a late-night poker game. It was such a hit that the hotel owner put it on the menu and named it in Reuben K.'s honor.

Years later, in 1956, Fern Snider, a waitress at the Blackstone, entered the recipe in a national sandwich competition and won. Documentation for some of these events does exist, including a 1937 menu from the Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska, describing the Reuben as we know it today: corn beef, sauerkraut, and swiss cheese on russian rye with a special dressing.

THIS RECIPE IS FROM MY SISTER IN LAW AND HAS BEEN GUARDED AS A FAMILY TREASURE FOR OVER 3O YEARS.

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