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It's Elvis Presley's birthday today and if the King were still shakin' his blue suede shoes, he'd be 71 years old.

I'm not necessarily a huge fan of his music, but I must say that I do appreciate his love for food - barbecue, bacon, burgers, meatloaf, and of coure, the sandwich that he made famous - peanut butter n' nana. And it' not just peanut butter and bananas slapped between two slices of bread. The whole thing is fried.

Every recipe starts with white bread and creamy peanut butter. I've seen a few "official" recipes for Elvis' favorite sandwich that use mashed bananas, but thinly sliced bananas sound better (to me). I've also seen articles that insist that there are slices of cooked bacon in the sandwich with the bananas and peanut better, and that the sandwich is fried in bacon lard, not butter. My mouth sort of hangs open in both horror and delicious awe on that one.  

Slashfoodie Judith (she of the great grilled cheese and asparagus) pointed me in the direction of an interview with Liz Smith on her book Dishing. The book is the famed gossip columnist's look at dining with celebrities and is part memoir, part cookbook, including recipes for iconic treats like the Elvis Fried Potato Sandwich. The interview on the Leonard Lopate show can be downloaded from the WYNC site.

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