Roast Beef

Lean roast beef makes great lunchtime fare - far less fatty and fattening than hamburgers or deli meat cold cuts. Thinly sliced lean top round of beef is under 40 calories an ounce, while bologna and other deli meats are 85 and more. The round's fat content is only 5 percent while hamburgers often range up to 30 percent fat. French Dip Sandwiches: Hollow out hard rolls, or miniature French or Italian rolls, tossing out the bready center, and cutting the calories in half in the bargain!

For 85 years, shoppers at the Italian Market have been lining up outside Sarcone's to buy the bakery's fresh bread. But until about five years ago, Sarcone's customers had to take their bread home to make their own sandwiches. Now Sarcone grandson Anthony Bucci makes hot and cold hoagies just a few doors away. Deli owner Bucci has dedicated many of his subs to his heroes: his grandfather Sarcone, his Uncle Louie, his dad Sonny, his son Sonny Jr. - even Sinatra. But he named his favorite after himself: "The Booch.

Roast beef. What used to be America's favorite meal is now a rare treat. While we still love it, a host of factors have conspired to move it off our menus. Foremost is the not totally accurate perception that red meat is fattening. But health concerns are only part of it. Americans have become increasingly adventurous about food. That leads to a certain ambivalence about roast beef. It's like mashed potatoes and Great Aunt Emma: Yes, we love them but they're boring! The final coup: Roast beef has a big-bucks image and special occasion status - hard to fit in with today's fractured family life.

This one's a dilly The lunchtime crowd at Your Gourmet Kitchen, 114 E. Lancaster Ave. in Wayne, knows what they like, and the Roast Beef and Dill Havarti sandwich is it. When Devin Forte and Chuck Crocco bought Your Gourmet Kitchen less than two years ago, they decided not to change the menu too much. "We inherited [the Roast Beef and Dill Havarti] recipe from the previous owners, who actually got it from the owners before that," says Forte. It looks like this sandwich, which brings together Your Gourmet Kitchen-roasted roast beef, bitter radicchio, hot cherry peppers, horseradish sauce and the dill-Havarti cheese, is here to stay.

WHY IS IT that people don't eat meat during Lent? Is this such a sacrifice? Jesus gave up his life and died on a cross, yet people who follow a religious tradition feel they are being challenged by not eating roast beef? But they can eat fish, which I consider a treat! What makes not eating red meat but eating a lobster a sacrifice? A real sacrifice would be to show some true faith by dedicating your religious beliefs not only on the holidays, but throughout the entire year.

A Pennsauken meat-processing company illegally added water to cooked corned beef and roast beef products sold in 1986, a company corporate officer admitted yesterday. Beef International Corp., 7010 Central Highway, may have to pay up to a $100,000 fine when U.S. Magistrate Jerome B. Simandle sentences the company May 4 on the criminal charge of adulterating and misbranding meat. The admission, by corporate secretary John Clarke, came during a hearing before Simandle. Clarke entered the company's guilty plea to one count of selling adulterated and misbranded meat.

The Republican pig had a fat apple in his mouth and two rosy red cherries for eyes. The Democratic ox, on the other hand, was no ox at all. He was merely slices of roast beef. "I say deception, fraud," Mario Mele, Republican candidate for Montgomery County commissioner, said of the Democratic sleight of hand. "There's no truth in advertising" among Democrats, agreed his GOP running mate, Jon D. Fox. And so began the fall political campaign to lead the state's richest county.

Official description: Juicy, lean, premium Angus beef topped with fire-roasted onions and peppers, melted Swiss and tasty aioli spread on a toasted Philly roll. Chain: Arby's. Calories: 610, with 30 grams of fat and 1,670 mgs of salt. Location: 2560 Aramingo Ave. Order time: 3 minutes. Price: $5.29. Review: Yes, the commercials are annoying to anyone who lives here; we're not sure what naming a sandwich a "Philly" means. Was this decision made by a focus group in Idaho looking for something authentic?

On the resolutely prosaic, two-story corner of 20th and Jackson in South Philadelphia, one encounters Nick's Roast Beef (est. 1938), which is not to be confused with other Nick's Roast Beefs operating in Old City and the Northeast, vestiges of an aborted franchise effort, about which the less said the better. The South Philadelphia outpost has appended "Old Original" to its name to signal its authenticity, though the granddaughter of founder Nick DiSipio does own one other official Nick's, an upstart in Springfield, Delaware County.

What it is: A cheery restaurant with country charm in Swarthmore. What we like about it: The large, hearty sandwiches filled with oven-roasted turkey, roast beef or pork seasoned and roasted on the premises, and served on crusty Portuguese bread with a cookie on the side. Even the iced tea with a large slice of orange is delicious. The menu boasts more than 70 tempting sandwiches that bear names familiar to this college town. Try the Rutgers - oven-roasted turkey breast, lettuce, tomato and honey Dijon mustard on rustic bread ($6.49)

THE NCAA Final Four consists of three teams seeded No. 2 or higher, and one seeded fourth. That said, you would think that among the more than five million brackets entered in CBSSports.com's tournament pool, a significant percentage would have a perfect Final Four. Think again. Apparently, a lot people go with the No. 1 seeds. According to the website, only 17,979 brackets - out of 5,136,592 - penciled in Ohio State (No. 2, East), Kansas (No. 2, Midwest), Kentucky (No. 1, South)

Official description: Juicy, lean, premium Angus beef topped with fire-roasted onions and peppers, melted Swiss and tasty aioli spread on a toasted Philly roll. Chain: Arby's. Calories: 610, with 30 grams of fat and 1,670 mgs of salt. Location: 2560 Aramingo Ave. Order time: 3 minutes. Price: $5.29. Review: Yes, the commercials are annoying to anyone who lives here; we're not sure what naming a sandwich a "Philly" means. Was this decision made by a focus group in Idaho looking for something authentic?

YOU'VE SEEN the commercial for Arby's new "Angus Philly. " How could you not? It's on all the time. In the ad, a guy hangs from the William Penn statue on City Hall, holding a sandwich. Beneath him, not-Occupy Philly-looking protesters hold signs and act angry at the dangling dude for enjoying his sandwich. Then the mad yuppies take bites of their own sandwiches. One says, "I know a good Philly, and that's a good Philly. " A "Philly?" "What is that, a 'Philly'?"

Outlet: Schmitter We went: 6:10 p.m. (pregame) Wait for service: None. Order: One Schmitter. Cost: $9.50, not including chips or beverage. The legend: For reasons unknown, the Phillie Phoodie had never had a Schmitter, either at the ballpark or its ancestral home, McNally's Tavern in Chestnut Hill. But for years, he had heard raves about this grilled-on-a-Kaiser-roll Frankensandwich made of roast beef, salami, American cheese, fried onions and tomato, topped with a Russian dressing-style sauce.

The chalkboard at Paesano's, the new sandwichery in the old butcher shop (and former Butcher's Cafe) at Ninth and Christian, lists offerings that don't defy description so much as, well, comprehension. Take, for one, the signature "Paesano" itself - tender, slow-roasted beef brisket with oven-roasted tomato, tangy horseradish mayo . . . and a fried egg. And there's this: the so-called Bolognese, which involves crispy fried, day-old lasagna Bolognese (it's far better than it sounds)

Les Bon Temps , the Center City offshoot of Carmine's Creole Cafe in Bryn Mawr, has filled the gorgeous multilevel space at 114 S. 12th St. (215-238-9100) that previously housed Odeon, Bistro Bix and the TPDS Club. Owners John Mims and lawyer Howard Taylor brought in Chalfont-raised chef Brett Naylor, 23, last at the Brick Hotel in Newtown after a year at George V in Paris. It's dinner only for now; weekday lunch will start May 5, and weekend brunch will follow the weekend after that.

You'll often hear people describe this world one of two ways: A cold planet where the inhabitants don't care. Or a wondrous place where kindness matters. Sandra Walerski, a Trainer woman who was the subject of an April 8 article in The Inquirer about the struggles of the working poor, is going with the latter characterization these days. "The love people share is amazing," Walerski said the other day as she cried quietly. "I'm overwhelmed. " Since publication of the article about how Walerski shops for her family with $25 to $45 a week, readers from as far away as California, Arizona and Florida contacted the paper with, as of Tuesday evening, 79 e-mails and 45 phone calls.

On the resolutely prosaic, two-story corner of 20th and Jackson in South Philadelphia, one encounters Nick's Roast Beef (est. 1938), which is not to be confused with other Nick's Roast Beefs operating in Old City and the Northeast, vestiges of an aborted franchise effort, about which the less said the better. The South Philadelphia outpost has appended "Old Original" to its name to signal its authenticity, though the granddaughter of founder Nick DiSipio does own one other official Nick's, an upstart in Springfield, Delaware County.

With a name like Piggy Joe's, I knew it had to have ribs. The Discreet Diner loves barbecue - anything on the grill. So, with a deputy in tow, we headed over to Piggy Joe's Gourmet Eatery in Moorestown. Surprise! No ribs. The name refers to roast pork. This place is not fancy. It's an eat-in/takeout restaurant where you order first, get your drink, then find a table. A staff member will bring your food over, or somebody might just call out your number for you to pick up your order at the counter.