Sandwich Chèvre-Miel
Goat cheese with honey; sweet-savory combination.
Goat cheese with honey; sweet-savory combination.
Warm goat cheese sandwich; cheese melted or grilled.
Charentes regional sandwich; butter, Cognac influences.
A baguette of cool coppa and lonzu with figatellu, the Corsican liver sausage, cut hot from the winter grill in its fresh season or sliced cold when dried.
In a Corti charcuterie at half-past eleven the owner trims a tasting board of four Corsican cures into a single half-loaf, shingled in the order they should arrive in the mouth.
Lyon's cervelle de canut is beaten, not aged: fresh fromage blanc slapped smooth with shallot and herbs, a mid-morning bouchon dish named after the silk workers it insulted.
The cervelas alsacien is a mild, red-cased pork sausage that named itself after the brain it no longer contains. On a baguette with mustard, the bread and the condiment do what the filling will not.
A cold boulangerie sandwich on a seeded multigrain loaf, with butter or fresh cheese and cucumber, radish or smoked salmon, in Paris lunch cases.
Catalan-influenced sandwich; Spanish border.
Yesterday's cassoulet spooned cold into a split loaf the next morning. The Languedoc bean stew is already salted and confit-rich, so the dense crust adds no flavour.
The cheap meatless baguette of the French lunch counter: grated carrot in a Dijon-sharpened vinaigrette, dressed and rested ahead, packed into a split loaf over a thin film of butter that keeps.
Carbonnade flamande, a Flemish beer-braised beef stew, packed into a split baguette in the Nord: a braise asked to survive in dry bread, built for the friterie counter and eaten warm, within the hour.
The caprese is a French café's light, meat-free summer line, and the basil is what earns the Capri name: the one leaf, torn not cut and added last, over cold tomato and fresh mozzarella.
Cancoillotte, melted from metton curd into a runny cream, spooned warm onto baguette rather than sliced. Franche-Comté's own cheese, WWI-tinned by Laurent Raguin, IGP-protected since 2022.
Baked/melted Camembert sandwich.
Runny ripe Camembert against a cold tart apple snap, on a crusted loaf: a Normandy pairing of pasture and orchard, the cheese and the cider apple off the same farms.
Brocciu fresh cheese sandwich; Corsican specialty.
A Corsican collision: figatellu off the grill, smoke and pork liver, laid on bread under a thick cool cushion of brocciu, the island's fresh ewe-whey cheese. Two products of one winter, in one hand.
Brittany's salted butter, grains still crunching, spread thick on a baguette with pale jambon blanc. The salt in the loaf traces back to a 1532 tax exemption.
The sandwich section of a French brasserie menu: buttered baguette, jambon de Paris or pâté, cornichons, built at the bar and served with a demi.
Brandade is salt cod beaten with olive oil into an actual emulsion, no flake left, spread thick on crusted bread. Durand wrote it down in 1830, reportedly as branlade, not Brandade Nîmoise.
Salt cod and potato purée on bread.