Overview
- The nationwide celebration, held Sunday, honors a staple found in homes, bodegones, school cafeterias and restaurants.
- The date was set in 2011 by a Facebook fan vote that made May 3 the annual day for the dish.
- Italian immigrants brought the recipe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and locals adapted it with cuts like nalga, cuadrada and peceto.
- Its roots lie in Milan’s cotoletta alla milanese, a breaded veal chop fried in butter, which the city recognized as heritage in 2008.
- A separate Day of the Milanesa Sandwich falls on March 18 in memory of Tucumán restaurateur José Norberto Leguizamón.