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.
Breakfast in the Golden Peninsula: Kaya Toast
The similarity of Kaya to the sweet Portuguese egg sauce Doces de ovos has been noted, as well as to Crème anglaise, which takes its name from the English habit of putting custard on everything.
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.
Islak Burgers: the Wet Sliders of Istanbul
Islak is a Turkish word meaning “wet,” and these “wet burgers” are just that, soaked inside and out with a garlicky tomato sauce before sitting in a steam cabinet awaiting purchase
Simple Sandwiches, Homemade Soups at Winking’s Market in Quincy
Winking’s deli stocks a small, slightly old-fashioned selection of deli meats and cheeses. They offer a sandwich menu as well, providing simple lunches at prices from a different century.
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.
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