It’s not hard to find one of the greatest sandwich creations in the world in its mother city of Philadelphia—you just have to know the secrets of where and what to look for.
Tom McAllister is the author of Bury Me in My Jersey: A Memoir of My Father, Football, And Philly, which was released by Villard in May 2010. A 2006 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a lecturer in the English department at Temple University. From 1998-2003, he made cheesesteaks for Dalessandro's in the Manayunk area of Philadelphia. For more information on Tom, visit his website.