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American Sunday dinners

Regional cooking that mostly refuses to be one thing: a grill tradition, a baking tradition, a fried-chicken tradition and a casserole tradition that share a continent and not much else. These plans lean toward the honest end of it — a piece of meat cooked properly, a couple of vegetable sides that are not an afterthought, and dessert treated as part of the plan rather than a bolt-on.

17 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What American plans look like

Most common mains

  • pork6
  • beef4
  • chicken2
  • duck1
  • fish1

How they're cooked

  • Pan-seared8
  • Grilled3
  • Roasted3
  • Breaded & fried2
  • Baked1

Diets they fit

  • Nut-free6
  • Pescatarian2
  • Gluten-free1
  • No pork, no alcohol1
  • Vegetarian1

The plans

How American dinners here are cooked

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