Puerto Rican Sandwiches de Mezcla
The textural deficiencies that the spread has by itself are almost entirely masked by combining it with squishy white bread. You can almost fool yourself into thinking that it’s something better.
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Puerto Rico’s Tripleta
Like many of the islands of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico is a culinary crossroads. The native Taino diet consisted largely of fresh-caught fish, root vegetables like cassava and yams, beans, squash, and peppers. The...
Mallorca de Jamon y Queso
Sometimes exploring a sandwich is a journey. Maybe an ingredient is difficult (or impossible) to find, or a recipe doesn’t exist in English and it has to be translated. Maybe it becomes an actual...
The Jibarito and Its Origin
Chicago food lore states that the Jibarito, a sandwich of thin-sliced steak or other meats, lettuce, tomato, garlicky mayonnaise, and American cheese on flattened fried green plantains, was “kinda, sorta” invented by Juan Figueroa...
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