Sandwich Ficelle
A ficelle, French for string, is the slimmest long loaf at about 100 grams: more crust, almost no crumb, so the spare filling sits close to the surface and reads loud. Bread built to recede.
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A ficelle, French for string, is the slimmest long loaf at about 100 grams: more crust, almost no crumb, so the spare filling sits close to the surface and reads loud. Bread built to recede.
Ficelle picarde (ham and mushroom crêpe) filling on bread.
Farci Poitevin (herb and vegetable terrine) on bread.
Époisses cheese sandwich; very strong, washed in Marc de Bourgogne.
Époisses cheese on bread; very strong, washed rind.
Grilled ribeye steak sandwich; Bordeaux steakhouse style.
Bistro-style sandwich; often served with cornichons and mustard.
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.
Dijon-style sandwich; heavy on Dijon mustard.
Bakery-made sandwich; fresh baguette with quality fillings.
Counter sandwich from cafés; eaten standing at the zinc bar.
Construction site sandwich; large, substantial.
Cold gratin dauphinois pressed into a split loaf, potatoes set in garlic cream, a slice of Saint-Marcellin alongside. A sandwich whose only firm thing is the crust holding a soft regional filling.
Curé Nantais cheese sandwich; washed-rind, strong.
The raw-vegetable baguette with no anchor to hide behind: butter lettuce, ripe tomato, cucumber, grated carrot, and a dressing that does all the seasoning a cured meat would do elsewhere.
Raw vegetable sandwich; grated carrots, lettuce, tomato.
Slice an aged Crottin de Chavignol into chalky rounds, pour the Sancerre grown on the same hill, and you have the wine country's own cheese sandwich: a 60g goat drum that lives two lives.
A curl of coppa off the knife, marbled and peppery: the Sandwich Corse frames one cured island meat on crusted bread, coppa or lonzu or prisuttu, and asks the cook only to choose well.
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.
One Doubs farm sends milk to the village dairy and raises the pig: smoked Morteau sausage, cooked and cooled, against nutty aged Comté on a crusted baguette. Two protected names from one massif.
Cocktail party sandwich; bite-sized.
Northern French sandwich; Maroilles, beer influences.
Sauerkraut and sausage sandwich; Alsatian classic.