Paul Fehribach runs Big Jones in Chicago, a Southern-food restaurant in Andersonville that has been there since 2008 and that Fehribach wrote a book about (The Big Jones Cookbook) because he is the kind of chef who researches heirloom rice varieties for fun.
His weapon was a breakfast sandwich. Which sounds like a deli order but, in Fehribach's hands, is a Maillard-and-egg-cookery exam. The bread is house-baked and toasted to crackle. The egg is fried in the bacon fat — not butter, not oil, the rendered bacon fat — so the white crisps at the edges while the yolk stays loose. The cheese melts on the bread, not the egg, so it forms a moisture barrier. The bacon is thick-cut and laid in a lattice so structural integrity holds bite to bite.
Bobby brought a breakfast sandwich. Fehribach brought a breakfast sandwich that had been thought about.