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will drive the Southern delicacy to
full throttle with your choice of a dilly
ranch dressing, remoulade, or hot
honey (for the brave ones).
TY MERRIWEATHER: THE MAE
BREWER SANDWICH
I was a student in Mae Brewer's food
services classroom at Southwest High
School growing up. We really learned
about a lot of different aspects of
cooking, pastry, food safety, how
to host an event with linens, and
preparation of appetizers to look great
on the table. She had the best tomato
sandwiches in the world. And the
richest people in town knew it. It was
like a hidden secret, that you'd include
tomato sandwiches on a fancy party
plate. She made tomato sandwiches
high-brow. She would always cook
at all of the most important people's
functions, for hundreds of people. Her
credo was that "service isn't being a
servant." That one was big. You have
to remember this was long back.
She went to college, which was less
common then for anyone, and for
her, food service was a passion. She
wanted us to know she chose it.
A Mae Brewer
reproduction.
It's not summer
in the South
without a tomato
sandwich:
white bread,
salt, pepper,
and Hellmann's
mayo." - June
Jordan O'Neal
2391 Ingleside Ave., Macon, GA 31204
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