It is a debate that has been passionately argued by culinary philosophers for centuries: Do sandwiches taste better when eaten standing over the kitchen sink, or when they are picked up from a paper plate?
I am firmly in the kitchen-sink camp. To me, paper plates are almost no better for sandwiches than china plates, which are practically like eating them with knives and forks.
I spent a lot of time standing in front of my sink the other day when I made six types of sandwiches. All of them were hot sandwiches — that is, each one had to be heated before it was ready to be eaten. I'd like to say that was my original intention, but actually the truth of it came to me like this:
