Sandwich Merguez
The Sandwich Merguez is a French open-air market and banlieue counter build organised around a North African chilli sausage, the lamb's heat carried in a baguette with frites and harissa.
The Sandwich Merguez is a French open-air market and banlieue counter build organised around a North African chilli sausage, the lamb's heat carried in a baguette with frites and harissa.
The Maghrebi-French kebab counter's late-night build: two merguez, a bed of frites tucked inside the loaf, harissa and garlic mayo, paper around the lot.
The Sandwich Lonzu shaves Corsica's leanest cure, the dry-cured pork loin, thin onto a buttered baguette: a herbed, near-lean coin with a hazelnut rim of fat and a chestnut-smoke note under it.
The knack is named for the sound its casing makes: a clean crack under the teeth, then the juice. Scalded and lightly smoked, served warm under mustard, the cooked sausage on a cold charcuterie shelf.
Lyon's December sausage: the broadest, longest-cured of the Lyonnais saucisson family, hung in November and coined onto baguette through the Christmas week.
The Alsace and Vosges pack lunch: a pressed-flat smoked dried sausage sliced thin onto buttered bread, a 17th-century Swiss-Tyrolean cure on a French baguette.
Corsica's pork-and-liver sausage on a halved baguette: grilled hot off chestnut embers, or sliced cool from the cured cylinder, with chestnut smoke and an iron tang either way.
Small Savoyard pork sausages simmered slow in a dry Apremont with onions, lifted from the pot onto a pain de seigle, the four-o'clock après-piste hot bite of the Megève chalets.
The Sandwich Coppa shaves dry-cured pork neck, a marbled spiral of lean and fat in every coin, onto a buttered baguette: a slice that carries its own richness, so the build stays bare.
Cocktail party sandwich; bite-sized.
Mixed Corsican charcuterie sandwich; coppa, lonzu, figatellu.
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.
Alsatian cervelas sausage on bread.
The Sandwich Boudin-Pommes is the Norman bistro lunch form of the regional blood-sausage-and-apple plate, the fruit cooked down to a sweet caramelised bind that holds the warm sausage to the bread.
The Sandwich Boudin Noir aux Pommes is the Norman plate of blood sausage and apple moved onto bread, the apple a sharp cooking variety kept tart so its acid lifts the iron rather than sweetening it.
Sandwich Bierwurst: the Bavarian cooked sausage on a French baguette, an Alsatian charcuterie counter built from broad red coins of finely emulsified smoked pork, butter, mustard and cornichons.
Baguette with rillettes (potted meat spread); rich and fatty.
The four-component picnic sandwich, nothing in it needing refrigeration. A length of baguette, a cylinder of dry-cured pork, a knife, and the bench you sit on when the walk runs out.
The three large-format Lyonnais pork sausages, rosette and Jesus and the brioche-cooked saucisson cuit, sliced thick onto a 1993-decree baguette de tradition at the bouchon counter.
A length of pane casanu draped with thin slices of Corsican dry-cured leg ham, the nustrale pig and chestnut-feed signature in every fold of the cured red lean.
A clean glassy slice of Alsatian pressed-head terrine on rye: gelatin-set picked meat with onion, parsley and vinegar built in, a cornichon alongside.
The bar version of Corsica's cured loin sandwich: lonzu sliced to order off the hanging piece, eaten standing with a short pour of island red.
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.
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.