Tagged: ham

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Chivito, Uruguay’s Claim to Sandwich Fame

So far on the Tribunal we’ve covered sandwiches from Europe and Asia, from North America and Australia, but the South American sandwiches I’ve tried have tended to be the most interesting.1  The Chilean sandwiches...

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A Month of Breakfast Sandwiches

We ran into this issue back in October with the Barbecue sandwich. “Breakfast” is not a sandwich. It’s a category. It’s a sandwich you have for breakfast, simple as that. The Wikipedia article is referring...

The cross section. 4

Good Sandwich, Vietnam!

Similar to the Chilean ham and cheese sandwich that we’re also covering this month, the Bánh Mì is a culinary Frankenstein, a hybrid of a country’s local flavors with the techniques of a colonizing power. This time though,...

Griddled Polish ham with melted Gouda, on griddled Mexican torta bun, with avocado. Nailed it. 7

The Chilean Barros Jarpa sandwich

Chileans love their sandwiches. The past 2 weeks that I’ve been researching this post, that’s been the refrain, the common thread throughout every article I read. Chile is a long narrow country with thousands of...

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A Quickie for Breakfast

We’ve all been hard at work on the new triad of sandwiches from the List for October so there’s been a bit of a lull in the proceedings. I know I myself have eaten...

Meaty, eggy, greasy, cheesy. Check, check, check, check. 2

The Hangover Helper

Medical science has a thing or three (or ten, or thirty) to say about the best and worst things for a hangover. Toast and water. Bananas. Soup. Freakin’ quinoa. What you don’t need, says science, are...