June List Sandwiches and May Wrapup
In June we’ll be trying Korean Street Toast, Hungarian Lángos, and the Florentine street food Lampredotto.
Yearly Archive: 2021
This Lao Baguette is no Bagatelle: Khao Jee Pâté
Jeow Som is magical. It is, all at once, hot, sour, salty and sweet, an encapsulation of the flavors that make the cuisine of Southeast Asia so exciting.
Breakfast in the Golden Peninsula: Kaya Toast
The similarity of Kaya to the sweet Portuguese egg sauce Doces de ovos has been noted, as well as to Crème anglaise, which takes its name from the English habit of putting custard on everything.
Polish Kanapki
For someone who likes Polish cuisine and wants to try a lot of it, there are few better places to live than the Chicago area.
May List Sandwiches and April Wrapup
Any excuse to hit a bunch of Polish delis is a good one. We’re looking forward to a May full of great sandwiches!
Sandwich Tribunal Presents: A Guy and the Kaiser
Between the anchovy paste, Gruyere, chicken, ham, egg and cottage cheese, I can’t help feeling this sandwich needs something acidic to cut through all that rich meatiness.
Kabuli Burgers: Afghani Street Food from Pakistan
It’s funny to us here in America to see what is essentially a wrap called a “burger”–we invented the hamburger, after all, and we are protective of it.
Chicago Sandwich Canon: The South Side’s Jim Shoe
A good Jim Shoe is a mess, combining corned beef, roast beef, gyro meat, onions, mustard, gyro sauce, cheese, lettuce and tomato in a hoagie roll. It is a lot.
April List Sandwiches and March Wrapup
There are mysteries afoot for April. Will we be able to get an Austrian-American former governor of California to answer them? Probably not!
Islak Burgers: the Wet Sliders of Istanbul
Islak is a Turkish word meaning “wet,” and these “wet burgers” are just that, soaked inside and out with a garlicky tomato sauce before sitting in a steam cabinet awaiting purchase
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