There's an article on the NYTimes website today, written by Dwight Garner, about the peanut butter and pickle sandwich. If you read this rag regularly or know me personally, you're hip to the fact that peanut butter is quite the obsession in these parts, so these idiot articles get me a little excited. In his intro, Garner references Ernest Hemingway's favorite sandwich, peanut butter and onion on white bread, a recipe I've been meaning to write about on CS for many moons. The sandwich, which I've consumed more than a few times, though unfortunately not on white bread, is a real time. And of course, like always, chunky is king.Hemingway references PB&O in Islands In The Stream and it makes its way into The Hemingway Cookbook as well. The Mount Everest Special:
"Well, go down to the galley and see if that bottle of tea is cold and bring it up. Antoni's butchering the fish, go make a sandwich will you, please?"Sure. What kind of sandwich?""Peanut butter and onion if there's plenty of onion.""Peanut butter and onion it is, sir."He handed a sandwich, wrapped in a paper towel segment, to Thomas Hudson and said, "One of the highest points in the sandwich-maker's art. We call it the Mount Everest Special. For Commanders only.
And in honor of the weird Lyle Lovett reference in the NYTimes article, here's a hell of a Tuesday morning tune:Youtube: Lyle Lovett - If I Had A Boat