Tagged: lettuce

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From Kongming to Tianjin: Jian Bing

It’s colorful and has an interesting variety of textures, the soft and moist outer layer of egg and crepe studded with toasty sesame seeds and little pungent bursts of scallion barely holding the crisp fried crackers and cabbage inside

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The Irish Chicken Fillet Roll

It all came together to something entirely pleasant to eat, nothing to write home about perhaps but if every sandwich inspired you to write a letter, eventually your wrist would get too tired to lift the next sandwich.

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Le Sandwich Américain

It does seem essentially American in some way, though the Hamburger patty may be German in origin, the mayonnaise Spanish, the baguette French, the frites Belgian and the ketchup Asian.

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Argentina’s Sándwich de Milanesa

For a long time, Argentina has been among the world’s top consumers of beef per capita. Figures vary by source and by year, but Argentina, along with its neighbors Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil, along...

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Antipodean Prawn Rolls

According to Wikipedia, prawn rolls are a common takeaway item in parts of Australia. Wait, wait, let’s back up a minute. There are a couple of things, scientific and cultural, that require explanation if...

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Making the Lettuce Sandwich Delicious

According to the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches from which we draw our inspiration here at the Tribunal, the lettuce sandwich consists of “lettuce and mayonnaise.” The Wikipedia article about lettuce sandwiches goes into more...

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Har Cheong Gai Burger

In the 2 years we’ve been doing this, I’ve gotten pretty great at making sandwiches. Eating them, well, I’ve always been aces there but these days I am a true pro. Sadly, for someone...

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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...