“Toastim” – Israeli Bagel Toast
I started out thinking this might not be a real sandwich, like maybe somebody was putting fake entries in the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches just to mess with me. When I first started searching...
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Afternoon Tea: a Comedy of Errors
Afternoon Tea is a practice that came about in England when a certain noble lady (we’re looking at you, Anna, seventh Duchess of Bedford) got peckish around 4pm while awaiting the evening meal, which...
Swedish Smörgåstårta
Another sandwich cake! *shudder* We wrote about sandwich cakes back in December, those nightmares of mid-Century Americana that haunted many a cookbook and family gathering of the upper Midwest 50 years ago or more....
Finnish Ruisleipä
Finland loves its rye bread. Though it has perhaps the mildest climate of the Nordic countries, the northernmost parts of Finland are in the Arctic Circle, snow lies on the ground for 6-8 months...
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...
The Ballad of Mister Crunchy, Mrs. Crunchy, and the Crunchy Horde
In Western Europe, in the land of France There’s a strange little guy without any pants With guts made of ham and a hat made of cheese Crisp fried bread’s all the clothes he needs....
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