Banana pancake recipe "new York times". What is American Breakfast? Sandwiches, eggs, juice, coffee. But the main thing is making pancakes. Posted in a tower, drizzled with syrup and chocolate, sprinkled with a generous handful of berries, pancakes always hit in the morning roadside diner across the country from Boston to San Francisco. In a number of national gastronomy characters they have pride of place between the Burger and cheesecake.