The first known club recipe is from 1903, but the sandwich's roots supposedly go back nine years earlier to 1894 Saratoga Spring, NY. Per What's Cooking America, a 1940 travel guide claims that, at the Saratoga Club casino in 1894, "Canfield Solitaire was originated in the casino's gambling rooms and the club sandwich in its kitchens." [CLUB SANDWICH POWER HOUR]
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