10 Years of Sandwiches
The Tribunal has been writing about sandwiches for 10 years now, and if we’ve learned anything, it’s to eat more sandwiches.
Author: Jim Behymer
French-Algerian Merguez Frites
There’s more to the merguez frites than just the fries: harissa, spicy and smoky, bright and earthy; merguez, salty, fatty, warmly aromatic, now brightly citrusy; sauce Algérienne, spicy, savory, citrusy and sweet.
Chicago Sandwich Canon: Maxwell Street
The sausage is hot, HOT, and the crisp casing snaps and bursts as you bite into it. It’s salty, fatty, garlicky, smoky, pungent with mustard, sweet and aromatic with cooked onion, with a spicy-sour kick from the hot peppers.
Roll and Square Slice: the Lorne Sausage Sandwich
What’s not to like? It’s well-seasoned sausage–coriander and mace are the basic spices behind a lot of the world’s great sausages, and the bread crumbs help the sausage crisp up nicely in the pan.
Outtasight Ottoman Flatbread: Lahmacun
The savory meat and vegetable mixture, aromatic and pungent, spicy with paprika and cumin and dried chilies, glues itself to the flatbread as it bakes, remaining moist yet adhering itself to the surface.
Yet Another Donut Sandwich: Finland’s Kuuma Koira
I was right to go with the good quality franks–that snap made this sandwich, and the beef flavor was an excellent foil for the donut bun, the sweet heat of the mustard, the sour crunch of the pickle relish
Çeşme Kumrusu, the OG of Turkish Street Eats
The layer of hot sausage is blanketed in mild, buttery cheese enhanced by the juicy tomato, sweetish gherkins with just a hint of spice, and pickled chilies that make up for the lack of aggression with a pungent brininess and heat
Ukraine in Alberta: the Kubie Burger
There’s a familiarity to the combination that is comforting, a universality. It comes as no surprise that these flavors compliment a patty of garlicky sausage, crosshatched with seared grill marks and oozing with melted cheese.
Mutton Doin’: Kheema Pav
It’s far more interestingly seasoned than a Midwestern Sloppy Joe. with a whiplash of flavors between the cool herbs and warm spices that kept me interested without fatiguing my palate.
Kathi Rolls of Kolkata
All else took a backseat to the floral coriander, the earthy turmeric and cumin, the warming garam masala, the lush chicken thighs, the bright lemon-spiked red onion and the bits of hot chili pepper tangled up in its matrix.
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