The Classic School Lunch
Many people don’t seem to have terribly fond memories of lunches consumed in high school cafeterias. It would seem, based on the way people speak of high school cafeterias, that many such places specialized...
Monthly Archive: March 2015
If At First You Don’t Cemita, Fry Fry Again
…Or, this probably would have gone better had I read Jim’s post before attempting to construct this sandwich. When I saw the description for the Cemita, I thought it should be a slam dunk....
Cemitas: Pueblan Specialty, Chicago Favorite
When many people think of Mexican sandwiches, tortas are probably what they think of. (That is, if they’re not thinking of tacos, burritos, etc., as sandwiches, an ongoing discussion I won’t revisit here.) Tortas do seem to be the...
The Strange Case of Doctor Jaffle and Toastie Hyde
An idea for a cheese sandwich post has been eluding me this month. Some sandwiches are interesting to explore and write about, some are so basic it’s hard to know where to start. A cheese sandwich is...
Quick and dirty cheese sandwich post
I’m a mother. I make a lot of sandwiches for my small child to take to school. My kids tend to favour fillings with no nutritional value, like jam or Vegemite or honey. I...
Cheese, Bread, Mostarda – the Cheese Sandwich
What is a sandwich, anyway? Two pieces of bread—or can it be three? What kind of bread counts? As the great Pound Cake Facebook Debate of 2015 suggested, for some people cake is not...
The Chilean Chacarero
Chile’s sandwich game is so strong that it got me to reverse a lifelong aversion to green beans.
On Sandwiches and Hyperbole
It’s a long, cold ride to 35th and Morgan in the Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport from my office in the West Loop, just shy of five miles in weather that’s barely breaking into double...
My weekend in sandwiches, March 2, 2015
A couple of quick hits here, as I had a bit of a theme going this weekend and I thought I might take a moment to tick off the purists. I live a stone’s throw from...
March List Sandwiches and February Wrapup
February is a short month, and we had some pretty exotic sandwiches to cover. Thanks to this unfortunate combination of factors, only two of us published a total of four List posts for February (one...
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