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LOCAL EATS
Don’t go home without sampling the food and drink that Greater Wilmington and the Brandywine Valley is best known for.
CRAB CAKE
“Crab cakes originated in low country Chesapeake Bay, as a way to use up the claw meat and parts of the body meat. As time moved on, people started using back fin and jumbo lump crab. But what makes a great crab cake is great crab meat, period, with some form of a light binder. It’s very simple. You can eat it as a sandwich, on a salad, as your entrée. It is to this area what a lobster roll is to Maine, where someone has done that work for you, and there’s this wonderful, succulent, sweet crab meat. It’s a very satisfying meal.”
Xavier Texeido, owner, Harry’s Hospitality Group
THE BOBBIE
“The Bobbie was invented in Delaware and has been voted ‘The Greatest Sandwich in America.’ It has cranberry sauce and stuffing on the sandwich. But really, it’s all about the oven-roasted, hand-shredded turkey. It’s nothing like a deli slice of turkey off of a big turkey breast. It’s like turkey off the bone. We slow roast the turkey overnight, we hand shred it that morning, and then we cool it down and serve it. The freshness of it is unbeatable. It’s like eating leftover turkey at Thanksgiving. That’s how it’s made at all Capriotti’s, and that’s what you look for — oven roasted, hand-shredded turkey.”
Karl Storm, co-owner of two regional Capriotti’s Sandwich Shops
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