Fischbrötchen–Crusty German Fish Rolls
One day at Chicago’s French Market, while I was in the process of trying to recreate Fischbrötchen for this post, I saw a new shop with a sign that said “German Food Innovations.” I thought...
Fairy Bread vs the Third Grade
Fairy bread is a party treat from the antipodes. Crit wrote about it once already–you can read her take here. They (she included, as our down-under correspondent) serve it at kids’ parties in Australia and...
Dyrlægens Natmad, or What the Horse Doctor Ate
Dyrlægens natmad is a form of Danish smørrebrød whose name can be translated as something like “Veterinarian’s midnight snack.” Seems that back in the early 20th century, there was a veterinarian called Sigurd Keilgaard–a...
The Elvis–King of Sandwiches?
In the (pretty definitive) conclusion of his Hitchhiker’s Guide series, Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams’ character Arthur Dent escaped his menial-but-largely-satisfying existence as Sandwich Maker to a stone age tribe by capturing and riding a Perfectly Normal Beast to...
We Ate Everything At the Hot Doug’s/PQM Pop-Up
It’s possible I have a sausage problem. As my Facebook friends and Twitter followers know, I eat more sausage before 10 a.m. than some people do all day. So, when I heard that Hot...
What Does “Egg Sandwich” Mean To You?
Just last year, a year ago this month actually, I did 31 days straight of unique breakfast sandwiches every day, most of them involving eggs. It’s harder than you might think–you can change the bread,...
Happy National Hot Pastrami Day (again)
There are a lot of made-up food “holidays” or observances, and many of them are even sandwich-related, yet I am not knocking myself out to celebrate every one of them. Why does National Hot...
A Donkeyless Donkey Burger
Look, you can’t get donkey meat in the US. OK, back up a minute. You probably can, shipped frozen from overseas. But they sell it by the shipping container, so the minimum order is...
Doubles from Trinidad, a Sandwich with a Story
Doubles are a delicious, cheap, and vegan street food, popular in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Hm. Informative, but dry. Let’s try again. I rode to Cafe Trinidad (warning: site plays music) in...
Woonsocket’s Dynamite (sloppy joe) Sandwich
It’s hard to find a recipe for Woonsocket, Rhode Island‘s Dynamite sandwich–a hoagie-ized version of the Sloppy Joe–to feed fewer than 20 people. Dynamite sandwiches are a community thing, served at “a dinner, a barbecue,...
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