Salmon in Manhattan
I just flew back from New York, and boy is my liver tired! My wife Mindy and I are recovering from spending 4 days and 3 nights in Manhattan. We didn’t go there specifically to try...
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Lomito Italiano
Welcome back to one of my favorite subjects, Chilean sandwiches. South America is a sandwich wonderland, and nowhere are they revered so much as in the long narrow mountains-and-ocean corridor that is Chile. This...
Louisville’s Hot Brown
The Hot Brown is a pretty well known sandwich by now. Originating from the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky (hence the unappetizing name), it’s been featured in various media: TV shows such as Man...
The Gyros of Illinois
The first gyro I ever had was in my freshman year of college, at SIU in Carbondale, IL, in the cafeteria of all places. I’ve talked about my small-town upbringing and my food fussiness...
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...
The Ballad of Mister Crunchy, Mrs. Crunchy, and the Crunchy Horde
In Western Europe, in the land of France There’s a strange little guy without any pants With guts made of ham and a hat made of cheese Crisp fried bread’s all the clothes he needs....
An Edible History of the Club Sandwich
A Turkey Sandwich Wearing a BLT Hat That’s what club sandwiches have always seemed like to me. It’s like this, you’ve got a turkey sandwich So you think to yourself, this turkey sandwich kind of...
Churrasco–Chilean Steak Sandwiches
If you’ve been following this blog and you’re feeling a little deja vu right now, you’ve come by that feeling honestly. Churrasco is far from the first Chilean steak sandwich we’ve covered. So what...
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...
Vegan for a Day: Chickpea Salad
If you’ve been following this blog, it’s not difficult to work out that I’m a bit of an omnivore. If you’re new to the site, or you’ve just clicked through from a search and...
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