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Cutty's Week, Day 4: The Spuckies

The Spuckie ($4.10/half, $7.95/whole) is the only sandwich on the menu with a real history, Kelsey says. Originally when he was dreaming up his business, he'd envisioned a muffaletta truck. Sometime after the truck plan evolved into a brick-and-mortar op, the muffaletta turned into the Spuckie, South Boston's take on the Big Easy classic.

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Cutty's Week, Day 3: Broccoli Rabe Torta

Affectionately dubbed "the sleeper hit of the shop," this Wednesday special ($7.50) was born out of leftovers from some of Cutty's bigger-name sensations. The sautéed broccoli rabe and the crispy, sesame-studded Iggy's roll comes from Saturday's Pork Rabe Torta; hand-pulled fresh mozzarella from the Spuckie; and their kickass tangy-sweet tomato jam from the seasonal, can't-wait-for-/can't-let-go-of-summer BLTJ.

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Cutty's Week, Day 2: The Spicy Pork Torta

A celebrity* invented this sandwich, but that's not why it became famous. According to Kelsey, the Spicy Pork Torta ($7.99) is another one of those examples of the staff mixing and matching X,Y, and Z from the raw materials they keep on hand, and coming up with something amazing.

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Cutty's Week Day 1: The Roast Beef 1,000

It makes up half of the shop's sales (to keep up with demand, Kelsey roasts 200 pounds of beef every week.) It brings customers in from Worcester. It's widely considered the best roast beef sandwich in town—and Boston is a roast beef sandwich kinda town. We're talking Cutty's Roast Beef 1,000.

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Welcome To Cutty's Week. Here's Your Breakfast.

Between Saturday's roast pork and Tuesday's pork carnitas, there's a lot of pork cooking at Cutty's. That also means there's a lot of pork fat rendering at Cutty's, and the staff recently came up with a brilliant way to use it: pork fat biscuits. Consider this the other "bread" option for your AM sandwich, the rich, craggy biscuit done up with thin-sliced ham, cheese, housemade pickle chips, and, as a nod to the South, red-eye mayo.

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A Sandwich a Day: Tarragon Chicken Salad at Partners in Westport, MA

Nestled on the ground floor of a rambling marigold-hued Victorian on a main drag of Main Road in Westport, Massachusetts, Partners Village Store and Kitchen is your quintessential country general store, bumped up a few notches for the tourists who come in for a day at the shore at nearby Horseneck Beach. There are books, tchotchkes, and a menu of soups, baked goods, and lots of yummy sounding sandwiches. With this laidback country vibe, I wanted a laidback country sandwich, so I opted for the Tarragon Chicken Salad ($7.45) served on a baguette.

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Belmont, MA: Shangri-La's Homestyle Egg-drop Soup

What really sets Shangri-La's soup apart from other egg drop soups is the fixin's: wilted fresh spinach leaves, whole shiitake mushrooms, sliced bamboo, cellophane noodles, and—as a true testament to the soup's name—an omelet that stretches from one side of the bowl to the other.

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Brookline, MA: Butterscotch Pudding and Brioche Rolls at Lineage Restaurant

Besides cousin Mark Sewell's Maine lobsters and the exposed wood-fired oven, chef/owner Jeremy Sewell's Lineage Restaurant in Brookline's Coolidge Corner has two claims to fame: its butterscotch pudding and its brioche dinner rolls.

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Jamaica Plain, MA: A Meat-Lover's Duo at Ten Tables

At the original Jamaica Plain location of Ten Tables, the pastas are homemade and exquisite. The raw materials—bluefish, olive oil, corn, butter, strawberries, whatever—are high-quality and always fresh. And the execution is always spot-on, particularly when it comes to preserved meat preparations like sausage and charcuterie.

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How To Ruin (and Rescue) A Real New England Clambake

A couple weeks ago my soon-to-be-married friends decided that a full-on traditional New England clambake was the way to go for their beachside Massachusetts wedding—and that I'd be the one to execute it. It was clear from the beginning that the right way was clearly not the way we'd be doing things. The only question was: Exactly which variety of wrong would we choose?

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