Outtasight Ottoman Flatbread: Lahmacun
The savory meat and vegetable mixture, aromatic and pungent, spicy with paprika and cumin and dried chilies, glues itself to the flatbread as it bakes, remaining moist yet adhering itself to the surface.
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Egyptian Hawawshi
The pita bread was slit open and filled with a thin layer of a meat mixture that stayed pleasingly moist after baking, mildly flavored with onion and garlic, with pickles on the side to act as palate cleansers between bites.
South American Sandwiches (of Northeastern Minnesota)
This mixture is intensely savory–between the tomatoes and the mushrooms and the many meats and vegetables it has about every kind of umami-producing substance in abundance.
A Garden Variety Sandwich: Mississippi’s Slugburger
In 1917, a man named John Weeks moved to Corinth, Mississippi from Chicago and started doing business out of a little rolling shack he built, just big enough for a man, a pan, and a burger-selling plan.
Fry Bread Is…
There isn’t really a wrong way to shape frybread. I’ve come to prefer the methods done by hand though. They are more prone to introducing imperfections in the bread’s shape, which are the best part.
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
Haute Cocina – French Tacos of Lyons
These French Tacos are not lightweight snacks. They are serious, gut-crushing meals. I have as yet been unable to finish one in a sitting.
Taking a Whack at New York’s Chopped Cheese
We had a lot of good sandwiches on that trip, but something about that Chopped Cheese sandwich had captured our imagination. It had some kind of alchemical magic about it, a combination of simple ingredients that was greater than the sum of its parts. We tried for months to make our own version at home. We got pretty close. But I think part of the magic of the sandwich is the locality of it, the immediacy of it. To be able to walk into a corner store, order a sandwich, and just a couple minutes and a couple bucks later walk out with a chopped cheese–that’s a magic that isn’t available outside certain parts of New York.
Chimichurris, Dominican Street Burgers
The word chimichurri refers to a South American sauce used in sandwiches and on grilled meats. Popular in Argentina, it is made from parsley, garlic, olive oil, red wine vinegar, and a little dried...
A Sloppy Joe For The Rest Of Us
This probably won’t come as a shock to those of you who read the Tribunal regularly, but most of the time I have no idea what I’m doing. I know I’m going to write...
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