Fritoheimer’s Miscellany

...h those heavily secured bunkers. It was at that point when the entire busload of folks realized that, apparently, our government moves nukes in Fritos delivery trucks because I can guarantee you that there’s no Fritos vending machine or liquor store amongst those bunkers. If you think about it this makes a certain amount of sense. I mean, you wouldn’t want to move nukes in a vehicle labeled “nukes”. But ever since, every time I see a Frito Lay tru...

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Hoshigaki Season!

...rather than chugging those pumpkin spice lattes. We’ve got a row of seven store bought persimmons hanging in a south facing window and plans to start more. Here’s what they look like when completed. If you’ve never tried making hoshigaki, a kind of transcendent dried fruit product that’s very expensive to buy, I can report that it’s one of the more worthwhile DIY projects on this blog and we’ve got directions here. EaterLA has a post on different...

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I Made a Coffee Sandwich

...and filtered water shop called Lu Sub that used to sit between a pet food store and a laundromat on the Glendale Boulevard traffic sewer in Silver Lake. Their sign promised “Coffee-Sandwich Drinking Water.” A friend and I used to speculate about what a “coffee sandwich” would consist of every time we went past the place. It took may years but I decided this month to bring some closure to this idle speculation. I based my prompt on the dessert san...

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Sandwiches of History

...ut thinking about it and when it arrived I immediately went to the grocery store to procure ingredients. So far everything I’ve tried has been a winner, from the “Spanish Sandwich” of 1909 (sardines, garlic mayo and olives) to the simple “Mushroom Sandwich” of 1893 (mushrooms and blue cheese) to the “Salmon Club” of 1936 (a club sandwich with salmon instead of turkey). When Barry announced a nationwide book release tour I snapped up a ticket for t...

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