Nashville’s Hot Chicken Sandwich
The spice mix hit my sweet spot, hot enough that I felt it, that pain-high of a dish that’s good and hot, the clarity of thought that arises even as your nose runs and your eyes water up.
Monthly Archive: March 2024
Sandwiches of New England: a Supplement
I will be taking my cue from Tarantino and talking thematically rather than chronologically. To paraphrase the wisdom of Grease, some of these items just go together, like shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom.
Fall River’s Physics-Defying Hot Cheese Sandwich
It was soft, it tasted like cheese, the mouthfeel was cheeselike, it had the sharpness of cheddar punctuated by the savory Coney sauce and the pungent bites of pickle, onion, and mustard. It shouldn’t have worked but it did.
Egyptian Hawawshi
The pita bread was slit open and filled with a thin layer of a meat mixture that stayed pleasingly moist after baking, mildly flavored with onion and garlic, with pickles on the side to act as palate cleansers between bites.
March List Sandwiches and April Wrapup
In March the Tribunal will be trying the Egyptian Hawawshi, Fall River’s Hot Cheese sandwich, and the Hot Chicken Sandwich of Nashville.
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