A Drunken Crisp Sandwich
OK, so in the sprit of this sandwich, I’ve drunk rather a lot of cider, and decided I should eat something to try to ameliorate the effects. I started with Henry Weston’s Old Rosie,...
An Edible History of the Club Sandwich
A Turkey Sandwich Wearing a BLT Hat That’s what club sandwiches have always seemed like to me. It’s like this, you’ve got a turkey sandwich So you think to yourself, this turkey sandwich kind of...
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...
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...
Hot “G” Dog: The Overview
Even before Hot Doug’s closed its doors in 2014, there was no shortage of places in Chicago selling dressed-up gourmet sausage. With Doug in retirement, Chicago threatened to become the Westeros of encased meats. A...
Hot Doug’s Returns! (Sort of.)
Hot Doug’s is back! Well, sort of. You may remember that Doug Sohn, Real Life Sausage King of Chicago, spent a lot of time in the last few months of his restaurant’s existence vowing that,...
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...
Adventures in Belco: Bread Pakora
A week or so ago, a mate on facebook posted that she’d picked up someone else’s Indian Takeaway from the fabulous (but “under new management” so the website doesn’t work) Bharat International Indian Supermarket. The...
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