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...
Monthly Archive: July 2015
Cultural Assimilation and the Chow Mein Sandwich
I recently watched the very good documentary The Search for General Tso, nominally about the origins of that popular Chinese-American dish (and where it turns out to have been created comes as a bit...
Morcipán, Choripán’s Dark Twin
A funny thing happened this month while I was working on my post about Choripán. I happened to look again at the screencap from this month’s section of The List and notice something I hadn’t before....
Choripán, a South American Sausage-inna-bun
You may in fact be getting bored of me talking about how great South American sandwiches are. I advise that you keep that to yourself for a moment. You might learn something. Choripán as a...
Hot “G” Dog: The Overview
Even before Hot Doug’s closed its doors in 2014, there was no shortage of places in Chicago selling dressed-up gourmet sausage. With Doug in retirement, Chicago threatened to become the Westeros of encased meats. A...
Hot Doug’s Returns! (Sort of.)
Hot Doug’s is back! Well, sort of. You may remember that Doug Sohn, Real Life Sausage King of Chicago, spent a lot of time in the last few months of his restaurant’s existence vowing that,...
July List sandwiches and June wrapup
Welp, it finally happened. A month in which I was the only person who wrote about any of the sandwiches on the List. I get it, it was June, there were better things to...
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