Sandwich au Langres
The Sandwich au Langres is built on a cheese with a well in its top: a splash of Champagne into the fontaine soaks the paste, so it arrives loosened and half spread before it meets the bread.
The Sandwich au Langres is built on a cheese with a well in its top: a splash of Champagne into the fontaine soaks the paste, so it arrives loosened and half spread before it meets the bread.
The Franc-Comtois Christmas grade of the Morteau line, the broad smoked sausage held back from the autumn pig-killing for the December table, sliced warm onto baguette with a spoon of Puy lentils.
Generic term for any ham sandwich on French bread.
Dry-cured ham sandwich; various regional hams.
Parsley-studded ham terrine from Burgundy on bread.
Parslied ham terrine on bread; Burgundian specialty.
Classic Paris ham (jambon blanc) sandwich; mild, pink ham.
Lacaune ham sandwich; Tarn mountain ham.
Bayonne cured ham on baguette; prestigious French ham.
Bayonne ham sandwich; PGI-protected cured ham.
Lobster sandwich; Breton lobster (homard bleu).
Lobster sandwich; luxury coastal item.
Herring sandwich; smoked or pickled.
Generic cheese sandwich; varies by region.
Sheep's milk cheese sandwich; various regional types.
Corsican cheese (various types) sandwich.
Foie gras mi-cuit on salted toast, no jam, no fruit. The Southwest's plainest luxury leans on the half-cooked terrine and a glass of Sauternes instead of fixing the fat on the plate.
The sandwich au figatellu is one grilled Corsican liver sausage, hot off the chestnut embers, in plain crusted bread: iron, smoke, and running fat, with the grill doing double duty as the safety step.
Crab sandwich; Brittany's Atlantic catch.
Duck leg salted, slow-cooked in its own fat, then shredded warm into a baguette with a spoon of fig confit and the skin crisped back through the meat.
Comté in a baguette, where the only real choice is the age of the wheel: a supple four-month make eats fruity and milky, a crystalline two-year make eats salty, dense, and long.
One goat cheese, three sandwiches: a soft young chèvre spreads cold, a firm bûche slices, a dry aged round goes under the broiler instead, which is the whole reason chèvre chaud exists at all.