Lampredotto? Maybe Not Though
This is the essence of street food, a hot, dripping handful of cheap but delicious food, slathered with condiments, its only significance to bring joy into someone’s life.
Category: The List
Gilgeori Toast: Korean Street Eats
The crunch of cabbage in a breakfast sandwich is brilliant. It introduces an element of textural variance that is both surprising and needed.
Hungarian Lángos
The bread is just a little salty, the crisp-crusted but chewy outer edges giving way to a thin and cracklingly crunchy center topped with garlic and cheese.
This Lao Baguette is no Bagatelle: Khao Jee Pâté
Jeow Som is magical. It is, all at once, hot, sour, salty and sweet, an encapsulation of the flavors that make the cuisine of Southeast Asia so exciting.
Polish Kanapki
For someone who likes Polish cuisine and wants to try a lot of it, there are few better places to live than the Chicago area.
Sandwich Tribunal Presents: A Guy and the Kaiser
Between the anchovy paste, Gruyere, chicken, ham, egg and cottage cheese, I can’t help feeling this sandwich needs something acidic to cut through all that rich meatiness.
Kabuli Burgers: Afghani Street Food from Pakistan
It’s funny to us here in America to see what is essentially a wrap called a “burger”–we invented the hamburger, after all, and we are protective of it.
Chicago Sandwich Canon: The South Side’s Jim Shoe
A good Jim Shoe is a mess, combining corned beef, roast beef, gyro meat, onions, mustard, gyro sauce, cheese, lettuce and tomato in a hoagie roll. It is a lot.
Hardee’s Secret Menu: The Harold
Sometime in the early 1980s at the Hardee’s in Macomb, IL, a farmer named Harold would come in every day at 4am and order a Frankenstein dish of his own concoction.
Pakistan’s Hunter Beef Sandwiches
Hunter Beef may be a Pakistani version of the salt beef brought over by the Brits. The question is, what kind of sandwich to make with it? Recipes abound, and no two appear to be alike.
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