Monthly Archive: February 2019

Shooter's sandwich 1

I Made a Shooter’s Sandwich

I’m trying to pinpoint when I first heard about the near-mythical Shooter’s Sandwich. It was years ago, decades… perhaps it was the 1996 episode of Two Fat Ladies, in which the late Jennifer Paterson...

My steak shuco 1

The Guatemalan Shuco

Shuco is a Guatemalan street food. The word itself means “dirty” in Guatemalan Spanish. When it comes to the food, I don’t believe the name “dirty” means that it’s nasty or undesirable, but rather...

Beef shawarma wrap from Kabob-Q 0

My Shawarma

Fast casual Mediterranean restaurants are a growing niche, both in the Chicago area and around the country. (Or around the world–there is in fact a small chain in Dubai that shares a name with...