The Austrian Bosna
Rules stink, and sometimes following your own rules stinks the worst of all. Today is the last day of December, and we haven’t covered the Austrian Bosna yet, a Salzburg street snack consisting of...
Author: Jim Behymer
Chasing the ideal BLT
I don’t eat enough BLTs. This is a weird thing for me to say, right now, when I’ve spent much of the past few weeks eating BLT after BLT, dozens in total. It’s true,...
A Fancy Bologna Sandwich from Au Cheval
I grew up eating bologna sandwiches. I still eat bologna sandwiches. My kids eat ’em. My wife has better taste than us, and good for her. But bologna sandwiches are a pretty typical Midwestern...
On the Eleventh Day of Thanksiving….
My family likes Thanksgiving, and we have our own set of traditions, like every family does. Generally we go to my Mom’s house and eat the big turkey dinner with stuffing (my favorite! just a...
The “Battered” Pork Tenderloin Sandwich at Kelly’s Tavern, Quincy, Illinois
Part 1 is here | Part 3 is here My Thanksgiving holiday was pretty hectic. My wife’s family had a big get-together in Kansas that we couldn’t miss, and while my parents understand how important it was...
The “Salty, Beefy, Spicy… Pretty Epically Unhealthy” Beef On Weck
Our final List sandwich this month comes from closer to home than the two South American sandwiches we’ve explored already, but it’s still a regional specialty that doesn’t travel much beyond its native Western...
Brazil’s Bauru sandwich
The details of some of the sandwiches we cover on the Tribunal are highly fungible–for example, the Barbecue sandwich we covered last month offered a wide range of possibilities for us to pursue, some of...
Sandwiches Never Sleep
It’s been a slow November so far at Sandwich Tribunal. Our sandwiches this month are challenging, each of them a specialty of a far-off region, whether Chile’s delicious Barros Luco, or Brazil’s Bauru, or the...
The Chilean Barros Luco Sandwich
Last month, with a big assist from the Bay Essence blog, I wrote something like 3000 words about a ham and cheese sandwich. Not just any ham and cheese sandwich–the Barros Jarpa, an inexpensive...
Good Sandwich, Vietnam!
Similar to the Chilean ham and cheese sandwich that we’re also covering this month, the Bánh Mì is a culinary Frankenstein, a hybrid of a country’s local flavors with the techniques of a colonizing power. This time though,...
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