The Classic School Lunch
Many people don’t seem to have terribly fond memories of lunches consumed in high school cafeterias. It would seem, based on the way people speak of high school cafeterias, that many such places specialized...
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If At First You Don’t Cemita, Fry Fry Again
…Or, this probably would have gone better had I read Jim’s post before attempting to construct this sandwich. When I saw the description for the Cemita, I thought it should be a slam dunk....
Cemitas: Pueblan Specialty, Chicago Favorite
When many people think of Mexican sandwiches, tortas are probably what they think of. (That is, if they’re not thinking of tacos, burritos, etc., as sandwiches, an ongoing discussion I won’t revisit here.) Tortas do seem to be the...
The Strange Case of Doctor Jaffle and Toastie Hyde
An idea for a cheese sandwich post has been eluding me this month. Some sandwiches are interesting to explore and write about, some are so basic it’s hard to know where to start. A cheese sandwich is...
Quick and dirty cheese sandwich post
I’m a mother. I make a lot of sandwiches for my small child to take to school. My kids tend to favour fillings with no nutritional value, like jam or Vegemite or honey. I...
Cheese, Bread, Mostarda – the Cheese Sandwich
What is a sandwich, anyway? Two pieces of bread—or can it be three? What kind of bread counts? As the great Pound Cake Facebook Debate of 2015 suggested, for some people cake is not...
The Chilean Chacarero
Chile’s sandwich game is so strong that it got me to reverse a lifelong aversion to green beans.
The Broodje Kroket and Emotional Distress
“Why am I putting these into a sandwich?” I thought to myself as I constructed my Broodje Kroket. A blasphemous thought, perhaps, especially within the context of Tribunal research, but the heart feels what...
Broodje Kroket, or my life as a fake Dutchman
When I was a kid, my stepfather Tim was from Pella, Iowa, a small town of (at the time) about eight thousand people southeast of Des Moines that didn’t so much cling to its...
Bun Kebabs in the Desi Corridor, Chicago
Often at the Tribunal, when presented with an unfamiliar sandwich originating in a far off and exotic land (e.g., Buffalo, NY), I’ll have no choice but to try and recreate that sandwich myself, from...
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