Finnish Ruisleipä
Finland loves its rye bread. Though it has perhaps the mildest climate of the Nordic countries, the northernmost parts of Finland are in the Arctic Circle, snow lies on the ground for 6-8 months...
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Rou Jia Mo, the Flatbread Sandwich of Shaanxi Province
Shaanxi is the southeastern-most province of “xi bei” or Northwestern China, occupying the geographic center of the country. It was the seat of 14 Chinese dynasties, the home of the Terracotta Army, and the...
Singaporean Roti John
Singapore is an island, a city-state, a port town at the far south end of the Malay Peninsula. Its position at one end of the Strait of Malacca, the easiest route between the Indian...
Getting the Reuben Right
There are a lot of ways to fuck up a Reuben sandwich. You’d think it would be an easy win, with so many good things going for it–corned beef, rye bread, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut,...
Pudgy Pie aka the Jaffle
Pudgy pie. Hobo pie. Toastie. Jaffle is my preferred term, mostly due to an Australian friend but also because it’s fun to say and it also answers that long-standing question “What rhymes with waffle?”...
Bringing Queen Alexandra’s Sandwich Home
It was an unlikely road that brought Alexandra of Denmark to the throne of England–she’d grown up as the daughter of a Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg but a relatively obscure one living on an Army...
How Do I Pulled Pork
This far into a project like this, trying all the sandwiches on Wikipedia’s big List of Sandwiches, we’re running into so many variations on a theme, or even outright repeats. Nearly 4 years ago,...
August List Sandwiches and July Wrapup
Hello everyone, welcome to August, wherein we’ll be looking at three new sandwiches and also celebrating the 4th anniversary of the founding of this website. Four whole years of sandwiches! Will I ever shut...
St. Louis’ Prosperity Sandwich
The first clue is right there in the description for this sandwich on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. “Ham and turkey topped with broiled cheese,” it says. “Sometimes includes bacon and tomato.” Hm, I...
The Portuguese Prego
The first thing that the word “Prego” makes me think of is an unfortunately named commercial pasta sauce, and the genre of slack-faced noodle-slurping pregnancy announcement photos that feature a jar of it. The...
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