Let’s Get Stupid: Hamdog
Hamdog is many things to many people. Hamdog is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum, buried inside a cured smoked emulsion of meat and fat, engulfed in yet more meat, drowned in chili and covered...
Har Cheong Gai Burger
In the 2 years we’ve been doing this, I’ve gotten pretty great at making sandwiches. Eating them, well, I’ve always been aces there but these days I am a true pro. Sadly, for someone...
Springfield’s Horseshoe
When my family moved from Central Illinois to Chicago many years ago, we moved into a neighborhood in which, within a few blocks, we had examples of the cuisine of Korea, Colombia, the Phillipines, Thailand,...
Hamburger With the Lot
So, I grew up here. In Australia. In Canberra, specifically. Many things have changed in my city in the last 47 years. Australian cities are typically divided up into suburbs, each with their own...
Smashed Burgers: Everything Old is New Again
There are a lot of different kinds of burgers out there. Different foodie websites have classified them different ways: Thrillist’s 16 Regional American Burger Styles, Serious Eats’ Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles, First...
The Return of the Black Bean Burger
Was it just because I was a vegetarian that it seemed like veggie burgers suddenly popped up everywhere in the 1990s, the way that when you learn a new word you’re bound to hear...
Changes, Chinatown, and the Ham and Egg Bun
Sandwiches are an ephemeral thing. No matter the outliers like the last McDonald’s hamburger sold in Iceland; by design, sandwiches make our lives just a little bit nicer for a short period of time and then...
In Praise of the Hardee’s Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich
What do you eat when you’re a picky child who doesn’t like hamburgers but still feels like dinner out at a fast food restaurant is a treat? These days it’s easy. Every restaurant has...
The Gyros of Illinois
The first gyro I ever had was in my freshman year of college, at SIU in Carbondale, IL, in the cafeteria of all places. I’ve talked about my small-town upbringing and my food fussiness...
A Ham Sandwich Walks Into a Bar…
Ham is grandiose and prosaic. Ham was the father of nations. Ham is a guy sitting in front of a shortwave radio looking for connections. Ham goes hard. Mostly, though, ham is a big hunk...
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