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...
Author: Jim Behymer
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...
Chivito, Uruguay’s Claim to Sandwich Fame
So far on the Tribunal we’ve covered sandwiches from Europe and Asia, from North America and Australia, but the South American sandwiches I’ve tried have tended to be the most interesting.1 The Chilean sandwiches...
SOS – Chipped Beef Requires Assistance
I grew up eating creamed chipped beef on toast. It’s something my Mom ate as a kid, and a recipe she took with her to adulthood, something cheap and easy to feed a family....
Chip Butty: The British Empire Strikes Back
NEVER TELL ME THE ah you’re probably right. We’ve had a rough go of it with British sandwiches here at the Tribunal. From back bacon to British Rail, from breakfast rolls to Branston Pickle–there’s...
The Unmapped Chicken Salad
I think a lot of kids have a mild form of brumotactillophobia–an aversion to different foods touching each other. I also don’t think this is a really traumatic phobia, just a mildly compulsive behavior...
Chili Burgers of LA, or Size Matters
I’m pretty sure I saw chili burgers alongside such other delicacies as pizza burgers on the cafeteria menus of my youth, but apparently Los Angeles feels like it needs a street food to call its...
Vegan for a Day: Chickpea Salad
If you’ve been following this blog, it’s not difficult to work out that I’m a bit of an omnivore. If you’re new to the site, or you’ve just clicked through from a search and...
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