When “Hot Dog” Isn’t Enough: the Chilean Completo
Chicago has a reputation for overloading its hot dogs, dragging them through the garden as the saying goes, but Chile has us beat by miles.
Author: Jim Behymer
Sandwiches of the South: Collard Greens and Cornbread
The cornbread is fluffy like a pancake but crisp-edged, the greens savory from the richness of pot likker, aromatic and spicy, vegetal and slightly bitter.
It Puts The Chowder In The Casket
The filling has a savory depth that is unlike any chowder I’ve had previously. The bread is buttery and crisp, and maintains that crispness despite the ladleful of stew that inundates it.
Pittsburgh’s Chipped Chopped Ham Sandwiches
The star here is the thinly-shaved ham, which is not remarkable but salty and juicy and tender, swimming in a mix of this mild tomatoey sauce and its own rendered juices.
Cheese Toast is Good. Chilli Cheese Toast is Better.
Its pungent onion and savory tomato, the hint of bright cilantro and the occasional hot bite of thinly-sliced finger pepper, it recognizably shares a pedigree with the snack of my youth but evolved
August List Sandwiches and July Wrapup
In August, the Tribunal will be covering Indian Chilli Toast, Pittsburgh’s Chipped Ham, and a spooky-sounding Taiwanese night market treat called Coffin Bread
The Irish Chicken Fillet Roll
It all came together to something entirely pleasant to eat, nothing to write home about perhaps but if every sandwich inspired you to write a letter, eventually your wrist would get too tired to lift the next sandwich.
New Zealand’s Cheese Rolls
Hot, molten, sharp cheddar cheese, with the piquant raw onions and hot Colman’s mustard powder amplifying the intensity of the flavors, just barely contained in crisp, hot, crusty, toasted bread.
Venezuelan Cachitos
The salty, smoky filling stays relatively moist during baking, its steam trapped inside the roll with it
July List Sandwiches and June Wrapup
In July, the Tribunal will be looking into Venezuelan Cachitos, New Zealand Cheese Rolls, and the Irish Chicken Fillet Roll
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