Kissaten and Tell: Japan’s Pizza Toast
Pizza toast is satisfying, the sour, salty salami with the mild sweetness of the cooked onion and green pepper, the cheese and the sauce, all supported by the crisp-edged but still pillowy-firm shokupan.
Category: The List
Thanksgiving in January: a Pilgrim Sandwich
When it comes to eating Thanksgiving leftovers, the early worm gets the bird, so to speak.
Not Quite a Silk Purse? Pig Ear Sandwiches
Pig ears, made of skin, cartilage, and a little bit of fat, are pressure-cooked in a seasoned stock long enough to just about fully gelatinize the cartilage, making this mostly a meat jello sandwich,
If I Only Had a Brine: Pickle Sandwiches
Regardless of who invented bread and butter pickles, or when, or why they’re called that to begin with, the idea exists: to combine bread and butter pickles with bread and, yes, butter, to make a sandwich.
Piadina Romagnola: The Italian Taco?
An Italian taco? No not really, not at all even, please put down the pitchforks. Sometimes I stretch too far looking for a theme each month. And yet…
Iceland’s Convenience Store Classic: Pepperoni Taco
If there’s one thing we here at the Tribunal understand, it’s this type of overwhelming passion for a sandwich, even such an obscure Icelandic gas station offering.
A Taco in the City of Sandwiches
In a stroke of brilliance, Jeff Barg wrote the Philly Taco up as if it were a thing people actually did. Before long, people actually started doing it. Art imitates life, they say, and often life returns the favor.
Patacones Venezolanos
Plantains neither contain their ingredients efficiently nor soak up juices and condiments, making it a sloppy proposition to pick this up and take a bite by hand. It’s a worthwhile battle though.
Canadian Fakin’: Peameal’s the Real Deal
It’s a simple sandwich, a combination of 2 good quality complimentary ingredients enveloped in a bread that intrudes neither with showy quality nor with an obnoxious lack of it.
Peameal Bacon: Toronto’s Sandwich
All told, while the peameal bacon sandwich is hardly what you’d call fine dining, I think it’s a fine sandwich to grab when you’re looking for something simple, quick and tasty.
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