RBR Tailgating: A Kentucky Hot Brown

There’s a good argument to be made that I should have held this recipe back until next week when we’ll all be flush with leftover turkey, but I am occasionally drawn to cooking something with a tie in to the week’s opponent despite my frequent protestations that I am neither drawn nor ever succumb to such temptation.

Were I in a less charitable mood I would pick at the vaunted history of the Hot Brown. Per Louisville’s The Brown Hotel, back in the 1920s the hotel would play host to a dance attended by upwards of twelve hundred guests each (“Each?” - that’s what the web site says, but c’mon.) night. The assembled would make their way to the restaurant in the late night/early morning to refuel.

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