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Sandwich Love in Shape, not Fillings

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Cafe Angelique (68 Bleeker St, NYC) looks tasty enough; there is a big display of sandwiches wrapped in plastic, cute little tables with people happily munching away and a chalkboard with today’s specials. Everything indicates that sandwiches are one of the main attractions, (in addition to coffee and cakes) so they should be good. This [...]

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Champ’s Gourmet Deli is My Work-Lunch Champ

Monday, July 28, 2008

Champ’s Gourmet Deli (71 Broadway, NY, NY) is a bustling hive of downtown sandwich love, often full of brokers and traders (WAY downtown.) I went for lunch on Thursday around noon and was apprehensive of the lunch rush from bankers and tourists. Thankfully, they work at a blistering speed and it wasn’t terribly crowded (most [...]

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ShakeShack Presents the Uber-Burger

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Everyone loves to sit in Madison Square Park and grin at the city spinning around them. It’s an old fact. Everyone loves Shake Shack. Another aging fact.  Everyone grumbles about the line. Also a fact. The hamburgers are delicious. Fact again. The towering mountain of meat, cheese and deep fried mushrooms known as the “Shack [...]

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France Falls to the Power of the American Sandwich

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Finally, France has fallen to the power of the sandwich: the great American hamburger. A few silly inconsistencies (improvements?):

 ”nine out of 10 people use knife and fork.”
“Ketchup does not automatically come with a burger. If requested, it may appear in a porcelain bowl.”
“She’s kneaded a mixture of chopped sun-dried tomatoes and tangy cornichons and capers [...]

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Nederlandse liefdesandwiches: Finally a Perfect Basil, Tomato and Mozzarella Sandwich

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

To conclude our feature on Dutch sandwiches, I have a fine beauty that is often thrown together rather haphazardly: the tomato, basil and mozzarella. You see this sandwich everywhere (Cosi calls it the ‘TBM’) and it’s a staple foodstuff for vegetarians on the move. In the states, these are awful, soggy bland sandwiches. The mozzarella [...]

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Nederlandse liefdesandwiches: The National Raw Fish ‘Wich

Monday, July 7, 2008

Dotting the canals and beltways of Amsterdam are these “haringhuis”, or herring stands. In these little stands ladies gut and clean fresh herrings to make herring sandwiches, the so-called national dish of the Netherlands. Let me repeat that: The NATIONAL DISH of the Netherlands is a raw herring sandwich. I will happily become a single-issue [...]

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