Antipodean Prawn Rolls
According to Wikipedia, prawn rolls are a common takeaway item in parts of Australia. Wait, wait, let’s back up a minute. There are a couple of things, scientific and cultural, that require explanation if...
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The Argentine Pebete
According to Wikipedia, a pebete is “an Argentine soft oval bun made of wheat flour with a thin brown crust, rather like a fatter hot dog roll.” I would say that it is more like...
Lomito Italiano
Welcome back to one of my favorite subjects, Chilean sandwiches. South America is a sandwich wonderland, and nowhere are they revered so much as in the long narrow mountains-and-ocean corridor that is Chile. This...
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...
Fruit Sandwich #1: The Whitest Sandwich Ever
The South has given us many things over the years. Barbecue. The Drive-By Truckers. Louisiana hot sauce. Fried Chicken and Faulkner. Biscuits and gravy. Of course, for every Alton Brown there’ll be a Paula...
Dagwood – A Retrospective
The Dagwood. A cartoonishly gigantic sandwich invented by a cartoon. It’s a giant stack of meat and vegetables and such between 2 slices of bread, popularized in the comic strip Blondie from the newspaper...
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...
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...
Chicken salad sandwiches: adventures in mayonnaise
I’m from the South. There can be debates about whether or not the northern part of Virginia currently constitutes the South, but when I was growing up there in the 70s and 80s, it...
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