Polish Boys in Cleveland
When I told people my wife and I would be visiting Cleveland for our anniversary this year, reactions (apart from the obligatory Rock and Roll Hall of Fame references) were divided, seemingly between those...
Yearly Archive: 2018
Porchetta sandwiches
Porchetta is a type of Italian pork roast. In Italy it is a street food, sometimes served in a panino, in which a whole pig carcass is deboned, flavored with garlic, fennel, citrus, and...
May List Sandwiches and April Wrapup
Welcome to May, Tribunal readers. I can’t tell you how happy I am that so many of you keep reading. I mean, I’d be doing this anyway, but it’s nice to know that other...
Po’ Boys, the hot subs of New Orleans
Have you ever heard of a cold cut po’ boy? I haven’t either. Though the sandwich is New Orleans’ take on the sub/torpedo/hoagie/hero/grinder style of sandwich, the fillings of a po’ boy are generally...
Pleased ta meetcha, Pljeskavica!
Years ago at a music festival–Square Roots Festival at Old Town School of Folk Music, I think it was–I had the opportunity to try an eastern European street food called Ćevapčići, skinless sausages served...
The Ploughman’s Lunch
The Ploughman’s Lunch, a phrase popularized as part of a campaign by the UK’s Milk Marketing Board to get a post-WWII England to get back to the cheese-eating, is yet a legitimate piece of...
April List Sandwiches and March Wrapup
Hi everyone! Welcome to April, though with Nature pranking much of Illinois with a heavy blanket of snow, it didn’t seem much like Spring. We’ve made it through our 43rd month of the List,...
Shooting from the hip: Lousiana’s Pistolette
The Pistolette from New Orleans is an oval-shaped bread roll common in and around New Orleans. It’s also the name for that same bread roll hollowed out, stuffed with a seafood stew and deep...
Pimento Cheese Sandwiches of the North
Commonly seen in stuffed green Spanish olives, and less commonly in pimento loaf, a disappearing deli staple of old, pimientos are simply a sweet mild red Spanish chili pepper. Pimento cheese, little heard of in...
Fridays in Lent: the Pepper and Egg Sandwich
Not every sandwich shop in Chicago makes a pepper and egg sandwich. Those that make them don’t necessarily have them all year. During the part of the year they do serve them, they don’t...
Recent Comments