Vietnamese sandwiches

[JP Villanueva]

We've been eating Vietnamese sandwiches in Seattle for years and years; I
imagine they're in Cali as well.  They are amazingly fresh tasting and
dirt cheap.  Yum, I want one right now.

                        -johnpatrickVillanueva-
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                          jvillanu at ctc.ctc.edu


On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> VIETNAMESE SANDWICHES
>
>      From the NEW YORK POST, 12 July 2000, pg. 46, col. 1:
>
>      MANHATTAN'S latest edible trend is the Vietnamese sandwich.
>      Created by Le Colonial executive chef _Hoc Van Tran_ at _NEM_--a new
> Southeast Asian to-go in Grand Central Terminal--the sandwiches are assembled
> on fresh baked rolls with a dollop of pate, shredded carrots, daikon,
> cucumber and cilantro with a choice of marinated grilled pork, sirloin,
> shrimp, chicken breast or vegetables.
>      "They were a specialty of my childhood," says Hoc.
>
>      I didn't find the name "Vietnamese sandwich" used in Vietnam.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------
> DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE (continued)
>
>      An earlier citation is "Cake: Devil's Food...112" in FOOD FOR THE
> HUNGRY: A COMPLETE MANUAL OF HOUSEHOLD DUTIES (1896) by Julia MacNair Wright,
> et al.
>      The date and the publisher aren't on the title page, so that's best
> worth rechecking.  It's TOGETHER WITH BILLS OF FARE FOR ALL SEASONS by Marion
> Harland (a famous food writer of the period).
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------
> WINDY CITY (continued)
>
> "The name of 'Windy City,' which is sometimes used by village papers in New
> York and Michigan to designate Chicago, is intended as a tribute to the
> refreshing lake breezes of the great summer resort of the West, but is an
> awkward and rather ill-chosen expression and is doubtless misunderstood."
> --CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 11 September 1886.
>
>     This bugged me for years.
>     I had looked at the DETROIT FREE PRESS and DETROIT NEWS in the LOC.
> While in the Detroit Public Library, I rechecked these and also went through
> the DETROIT POST, DETROIT EVENING JOURNAL, DETROIT EVENING TRIBUNE, and
> MICHIGAN CATHOLIC.
>     "Garden City" is used in 1885 and for much of 1886 in most all of these
> newspapers.
>     I always thought the Chicago Tribune meant "New York and _Missouri_."  It
> was the St. Louis newspapers that ragged on Chicago the most--not Detroit.
>