Hyperbole and a Half

is pretty funny.

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Overheard today at a Starbucks:

Patron:    I love his tragedies.

Barista:    Hamlet is good.

Patron:    Macbeth is my favorite.

Barista:   Yeah, Macbeth is okay.

One or two small thank you’s to the Sublime Miss M for hooking me up with H and a Half.

D.C.’s sandwich prospects are looking up, according to Tim Carman, and I agree.

Read more:

Local Heroes

Mr. Carman’s story provides an excellent starter list for sandwich procurement in downtown DC. You will need a car, cab or bike to draw the lines between the bread dots. All the better to work up an appetite.

I don’t get it.

Will have to ask the 10-year-old who clipped it to also explain it. We have plenty of time for talking this spring break week. Two days looking down and two days looking up – Grand Canyon and Red Rocks.

He is still talking to me, although I wondered a bit after receiving a note late last week that read, “I hate you, Mom…..for now.” Sending him to bed previous to midnight is so utterly hateable. Hahaha. Yup, he is still talking to me, 24/7.

April in DC looks like a sandwich-packed month. On my to-do list:

Sauca

G Street Food

Lebanese Butcher and Market with I-Do-My-Best-to-Suit-Myself-Cynthia (They have some crazy lamb sandwiches. Lamb liver and heart sandwich? Lamb brain sandwich?)

My Ngoc post from Heather Mull in Pittsburgh

Highlands Cafe post from Along-for-the-Ride-Hei7di + Generation-Jennifer-Jenny

DON’T TOUCH THAT DIAL!

The Lunch Encounter is pleased to announce,

LIVE AND ON THE PREMISES, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel

and his sandwich highlights from the Del Lords spring 2010 tour of Spain.

The first hint of goodness, jamon y queso on a croissant on the plane.

Surf and turf combo of open-faced sandwiches, jamon Iberico and a salmon “coca”.

Couple more cocas…. fabulous spanish tuna on left and a tortilla with pepper on the right. In Spain tortilla is an egg dish
with potatoes in it.

This was a fabulous pork cutlet sandwich with a tomato sauce with potatoes.

The ‘sandwich mixto’,  Serrano ham and some manchego cheese. These are everywhere and always fantastic on the fresh bread.

Mini Boccadillo. Another variation on the fabulous theme of Jamon.

This was called a Sandwich Royale but I deemed it the “Madrid Club” it had ham,
cheese, white asperegus, lettuce tomato and a fried egg on it.

I have never been to Spain. Tonight after work I stopped by my friend Silvia’s, who is from Majorca, and she sliced me a wedge of her warm tortilla while her husband poured me a tumbler of wine. Then we talked Spanish sandwiches and they told me about tortilla espana on bread. I love the confidence it takes to put something simple on bread and leave it alone. The ingredients must be top notch.

Thank you, Roscoe, for the delicious vicarious tour. While I have never been to Spain, I have seen the Del Lords, twice, at the Club 9:30 a few years ago. Delicious.

From Mike Rhode, who lays it out plain as simple as bologna on white.

Nate Beeler, cartoonist for the conservative free paper, The Examiner, draws an enticing hamburger – a quadruple decker in fact. But he’s less impressed with the Democratic health care plan that he has the hamburger standing in for.
In Nate’s view, President Obama’s selling the health care plan by saying it will save money, and Nate equates that with the argument that eating a giant fast food burger will help you lose weight.

A ha!

Mike must actually pick up those soggy free Examiner’s from his front yard. Mine are slowly eroding to mulch among the crocuses…

BIG BENEFIT SANDWICH SALE & DANCE

FOR ROY CARRIER & DONNA ANGELLE

Saturday, March 27
Roy Carrier‘s Offshore Lounge

Lawtell, LA

Sandwich sale begins at 10 am

Pork            $

Chicken    $4

Dance begins at 9 pm until….

Music by Roy Carrier & Donna Angelle

Admission $7

337-351-2404 for more info or to make a donation

The non-profit for the benefit of Roy Carrier Bank account is ongoing and
IT’S TAX DEDUCTABLE!

For wired donations the account name is:
Benefit Of Roy Carrier
Account # 819510637
Routing Number 065400137

To send a check by on-line banking or through the mail

make the check payable to Benefit Of Roy Carrier

and put the account number on the check.

Mail to:
Chase Bank
c/o Benefit Of Roy Carrier
800 Pinhook Rd.
Lafayette, LA 70503
http://www.chase.com


Illustration by Mara Cherkasky

Who’s
going with me/meeting me
at Jazz Fest 2011?

My best friend stood up at my wedding. She is clever with words, very clever, and punch funny. As best maid, the toast was her task, and she nailed it, or would have, had her words come as true as I hoped. “He is the salt of the earth. She is the spice of life. Together they make a perfect recipe.”

I am well aware that there is no such thing as a perfect recipe, and that perfect is the enemy of good, and that a perfect life is imperfect. On and on. Still…determining when the imperfection’s glare is enough to blind you is, well, an imperfect science.

If I had to choose, salt or spice, I admit I would take salt. Today. Tomorrow I choose spice. It is a quandary with no good option, not as critical as the question, would you rather be blind or deaf (you know you have thought about it), for sure, but it does make you dig deep into your needs and wants.

For tonight, the Ides of March, pork rubbed with pepper as red as corned beef, sliced thick, on juice-sopped sourdough. For Wednesday, St. Patrick’s Day, between slabs of rye, corned brisket with cinnamon the shade of pan drippings, ginger as pale as leaf lard, and cloves with the strength of bacon bits. For spring, coming soon, on a baguette, with mustard, slivered leg of lamb with rosemary as green as wet moss and garlic as damp as a bone-chilling fog. Add salt. Particularly for the corned beef, please.

Renee Comet

Lisa Cherkasky

Googie-of-the-Month-Club

Goody’s Coffee Shop | Breakfast 6 A.M. | 865 E. Las Tunas Drive

Googie Style

Entranced by the steel cut-outs.

I did it. For Schmidt’s. For our vacation kitty. The vacation called EATMORESANDWICHES. For the drive to our summer vacation, deli thins cut the mustard cause they hold meat and cheese like a bread vice.

Sandwich photos by Dan Whipps
Sandwiches by Me

A bit of touching news from the Lunch Encounter archives.

Katrina’s Lives Lost: Joseph Casamento, 1925-2005
Submitted By: N.O.V.A November 2005
Source: Times Picayune 11-11-2005
The night we went to Casemento’s during Jazz Fest 2002, Teddy was two and with no agenda of his own. Where we went, he went, gladly. That boy ate meals four, five, six times a day in New Orleans, morning, noon and night. Sometimes it was near to midnight, as it was this night, and we caught Casemento’s at the end of their evening service. Ate up and got out. The place gleams, floor to ceiling with shiny white tile, just right for an oysteria. We gleamed too, faces shiny with appetite and pleasure.

Joe Casemento lived his entire life above the restaurant that bears his family’s name.

“He had a ham sandwich every night,” said Gerdes, wife of C.J. Gerdes, Casamento’s nephew and an owner of the family restaurant. “And then he had some cookies and his ice cream.”

Teddy does look a bit shell-shocked. Over the few days we were there, we all ate our own weight in oysters, po-boys and bread pudding. No exceptions.

RIP Joe Casemento.

The restaurant lives on. Go!