A sandwich made with corned beef, sauerkraut, melted cheese, and Russian or Thousand Island dressing on toasted rye bread.
Named after Reuben Kulakofsky, a Jewish-American restaurateur who created it in the early 1900s at his deli in Omaha, Nebraska. The sandwich became famous and spread across America under his name.
The Reuben sandwich is one of the few foods that actually has a confirmed origin story—it was literally invented by a person named Reuben! Most sandwich names are lost to history, but this one was so good that the creator's actual name stuck with it.
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