Pork Chop Buns from Macau
Macau is a Chinese administrative region across the South China Sea from Hong Kong. Whereas the latter was a British colony whose sovereignty was returned to China in 1997, Macau was returned to China...
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Finnish Porilainen
Almost every English-language writeup online that I’ve found of the Finnish Porilainen sandwich–and there aren’t all that many, to be honest, but hey! we’re adding to that number–uses some form of the phrase “a...
Polish Boys in Cleveland
When I told people my wife and I would be visiting Cleveland for our anniversary this year, reactions (apart from the obligatory Rock and Roll Hall of Fame references) were divided, seemingly between those...
Porchetta sandwiches
Porchetta is a type of Italian pork roast. In Italy it is a street food, sometimes served in a panino, in which a whole pig carcass is deboned, flavored with garlic, fennel, citrus, and...
Po’ Boys, the hot subs of New Orleans
Have you ever heard of a cold cut po’ boy? I haven’t either. Though the sandwich is New Orleans’ take on the sub/torpedo/hoagie/hero/grinder style of sandwich, the fillings of a po’ boy are generally...
Pleased ta meetcha, Pljeskavica!
Years ago at a music festival–Square Roots Festival at Old Town School of Folk Music, I think it was–I had the opportunity to try an eastern European street food called Ćevapčići, skinless sausages served...
The Ploughman’s Lunch
The Ploughman’s Lunch, a phrase popularized as part of a campaign by the UK’s Milk Marketing Board to get a post-WWII England to get back to the cheese-eating, is yet a legitimate piece of...
Shooting from the hip: Lousiana’s Pistolette
The Pistolette from New Orleans is an oval-shaped bread roll common in and around New Orleans. It’s also the name for that same bread roll hollowed out, stuffed with a seafood stew and deep...
Pimento Cheese Sandwiches of the North
Commonly seen in stuffed green Spanish olives, and less commonly in pimento loaf, a disappearing deli staple of old, pimientos are simply a sweet mild red Spanish chili pepper. Pimento cheese, little heard of in...
Fridays in Lent: the Pepper and Egg Sandwich
Not every sandwich shop in Chicago makes a pepper and egg sandwich. Those that make them don’t necessarily have them all year. During the part of the year they do serve them, they don’t...
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