Salad Sandwich (after a fashion)
Friends, I must tell you about this surprisingly good sandwich I just made with a combination of mediocre and excellent ingredients. I was supposed to be taking a day trip to the coast today...
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Polish Zapiekanka
The 1970s were lean times in Poland. Wages stagnated while the price of food and other basic goods–prices that were fixed by the government–rose, and rose again, sparking protests, labor strikes and civil unrest....
Puerto Rico’s Tripleta
Like many of the islands of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico is a culinary crossroads. The native Taino diet consisted largely of fresh-caught fish, root vegetables like cassava and yams, beans, squash, and peppers. The...
Toast Hawaii, a German snack
German cuisine is made up almost entirely of comfort foods. Gravies, dumplings, potatoes and roasted meats, rich stews and melted cheese are the name of the game in der Vaterland. So it stands out...
Argentina’s Sandwiches de Miga
I can’t help that they come to me Sandwiches de Miga “Sandwiches de Miga” by Pappo’s Blues as translated by Damian Behymer Last month we talked about Argentina’s cuisine, the focus on the style...
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...
St. Louis’ Prosperity Sandwich
The first clue is right there in the description for this sandwich on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. “Ham and turkey topped with broiled cheese,” it says. “Sometimes includes bacon and tomato.” Hm, I...
The Ploughman’s Lunch
The Ploughman’s Lunch, a phrase popularized as part of a campaign by the UK’s Milk Marketing Board to get a post-WWII England to get back to the cheese-eating, is yet a legitimate piece of...
The Argentine Pebete
According to Wikipedia, a pebete is “an Argentine soft oval bun made of wheat flour with a thin brown crust, rather like a fatter hot dog roll.” I would say that it is more like...
Obložené chlebíčky
Don’t ask me how to pronounce the name of this sandwich. I have asked my linguist son Damian multiple times to say it for me, and he (not a fluent Czech speaker but with...
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