Richmond, VA’s Sailor Sandwich
Knackwurst is a favorite of mine. More commonly spelled Knockwurst here in the US, it’s basically a stubby, fat, garlicky hot dog in a natural casing that pops and cracks while the sausage is...
Sabich, Street Food of Israel
Sabich is a sandwich of fried eggplant and hard-boiled egg, stuffed into a pita with salad and sauce, originating in the Tel Aviv district of Israel. The street food is said to have originated...
Runzas, aka Bierocks
Runza is a chain of restaurants started in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1949. Their namesake menu item, the Runza, is a sealed yeast-leavened bread roll with a any of a variety of fillings baked into...
Finnish Ruisleipä
Finland loves its rye bread. Though it has perhaps the mildest climate of the Nordic countries, the northernmost parts of Finland are in the Arctic Circle, snow lies on the ground for 6-8 months...
Rou Jia Mo, the Flatbread Sandwich of Shaanxi Province
Shaanxi is the southeastern-most province of “xi bei” or Northwestern China, occupying the geographic center of the country. It was the seat of 14 Chinese dynasties, the home of the Terracotta Army, and the...
Roast Beef Sandwiches
Roast beef sandwiches come in many forms: cold, hot, on sliced bread or a roll, with cheese, jus, horseradish, mustard, onions, mayo/tomato/lettuce, open-faced with gravy. There’s no specific format to follow, no secret history...
Singaporean Roti John
Singapore is an island, a city-state, a port town at the far south end of the Malay Peninsula. Its position at one end of the Strait of Malacca, the easiest route between the Indian...
Getting the Reuben Right
There are a lot of ways to fuck up a Reuben sandwich. You’d think it would be an easy win, with so many good things going for it–corned beef, rye bread, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut,...
Pudgy Pie aka the Jaffle
Pudgy pie. Hobo pie. Toastie. Jaffle is my preferred term, mostly due to an Australian friend but also because it’s fun to say and it also answers that long-standing question “What rhymes with waffle?”...
Bringing Queen Alexandra’s Sandwich Home
It was an unlikely road that brought Alexandra of Denmark to the throne of England–she’d grown up as the daughter of a Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg but a relatively obscure one living on an Army...
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