Put Your Hands Together For… Empalmes
Empalme, at its most basic, consists of this: tortillas of nixtamalized corn, dipped in lard, sandwiched together and cooked on a grill, or in a griddle.
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Arepas, a Venezuelan, (Pre-)Colombian Snack
The savory beef is enhanced by multiple forms of tomato, with the sweetness of the cooked onion and red pepper never far from the tongue.
Bocadillos of Spain
Bocadillos, or bocatas, are a sandwich type in Spain. In Spain, there are several words for sandwiches–maybe not quite as many as in American English, but with somewhat explicit differences between the sandwich each...
The Toastie Post
We’ve written about grilled cheese sandwiches. We’ve covered melts. We’ve done pudgy pies and jaffles. We’ve talked about patty melts, reubens, croque monsieurs, mozzarella in carrozza… There are a lot of different ways to...
The Guatemalan Shuco
Shuco is a Guatemalan street food. The word itself means “dirty” in Guatemalan Spanish. When it comes to the food, I don’t believe the name “dirty” means that it’s nasty or undesirable, but rather...
Sausage Sandwiches
The entry on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches describing Sausage sandwiches lists the origin as the UK and Germany, and describes them thus: “Sausage on a roll or bread, served with a variety of...
Mexican Pambazo
English language sources say that the Mexican Pambazo sandwich gets its name from its bread, a poor man’s bread, pan basso, made with the oldest, poorest quality flour, soaked in salsa guajillo to make it edible....
Tapas on Toast: the Spanish Montadito
Montaditos are a type of small-plate, open-faced Spanish sandwich. Like tapas, they are often served with drinks, sometimes as a complimentary snack (to help you keep drinking!) There’s no specific recipe. It’s simply a...
Mexican Molletes
Molletes are a Mexican antojito or snack, often eaten during breakfast hours. They’re a form of melt, made with bolillo rolls, refried beans, and cheese. They’re served in Mexico at cafes, cafeterias, even McDonalds. Here...
Dagwood – A Retrospective
The Dagwood. A cartoonishly gigantic sandwich invented by a cartoon. It’s a giant stack of meat and vegetables and such between 2 slices of bread, popularized in the comic strip Blondie from the newspaper...
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