Chicago Sandwich Canon: The Big Baby
A good Big Baby is not a miraculous event; it is no great eye-opening revelation. It’s just a double cheeseburger. But at its best, it is a very enjoyable, well-engineered and constructed double cheeseburger.
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Sabich, Street Food of Israel
Sabich is a sandwich of fried eggplant and hard-boiled egg, stuffed into a pita with salad and sauce, originating in the Tel Aviv district of Israel. The street food is said to have originated...
Finnish Porilainen
Almost every English-language writeup online that I’ve found of the Finnish Porilainen sandwich–and there aren’t all that many, to be honest, but hey! we’re adding to that number–uses some form of the phrase “a...
The Ploughman’s Lunch
The Ploughman’s Lunch, a phrase popularized as part of a campaign by the UK’s Milk Marketing Board to get a post-WWII England to get back to the cheese-eating, is yet a legitimate piece of...
Obložené chlebíčky
Don’t ask me how to pronounce the name of this sandwich. I have asked my linguist son Damian multiple times to say it for me, and he (not a fluent Czech speaker but with...
Cubano? CubanYES!!!
It’s come to me over the past couple of days that each of the three sandwiches we’re covering this month is basically a variation of the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich. As good as a melty-ass ham-and-cheese sandwich...
Happy National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day!
Seems like every day is another observance of one thing or another. Or a dozen others. Today, in fact, is not only National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day, it is also the Feast of the...
Brazil’s Bauru sandwich
The details of some of the sandwiches we cover on the Tribunal are highly fungible–for example, the Barbecue sandwich we covered last month offered a wide range of possibilities for us to pursue, some of...
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