All You Can Eat: The Bay Area’s Favorite Sandwiches and Why We Love Them

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Bay Area may not have an official sandwich, but “our local sandwiches have an unparalleled layering of textures that can’t be found anywhere else,” writes Rocky Rivera in a recent essay for KQED. People here love deli meat on Dutch crunch bread or sourdough and don’t skip the avocados! Italian delis such as Little Luca in South San Francisco and Molinari in North Beach have cult followings. Customers line up around the block for Bakesale Betty’s fried chicken sandwich. So, what does it take to elevate a sandwich from just tasty to satisfyingly iconic? For our next installment of All You Can Eat, our regular series about Bay Area food cultures with KQED’s Luke Tsai, we bite into our favorite local sandos and why we love them. Guests: Saint Boney, owner and chef, The Saint Sandwich Shop Cesar Hernandez, associate restaurant critic, San Francisco Chronicle Albert Ok, owner, Ok's Deli in Oakland Rocky Rivera, emcee and writer, part of KQED's "Frisco Foodies" series Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts & Culture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Key QBD Podcasts comes from San Francisco International Airport.
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0:32.2	From KQED.
0:37.2	The From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:49.3	Many cities have a defining sandwich.
0:52.4	New York's pastrami on rye, the Philly cheese steak, Chicago's hot beef.
0:57.3	But what about the greatest food region in the country, our own Bay Area?
1:01.7	We don't have an official or even an unofficial sandwich.
1:05.2	Instead, we have a profusion of sandwiches from different places in this country and around the world.
1:11.2	In a recent essay for KQED, Rocky Rivera says our local sandwiches have an unparalleled
1:16.7	layering of textures that can't be found anywhere else.
1:20.2	And today, in our latest installment of All You Can Eat with Luke Sy, Rocky will join us
1:24.4	and we'll hear from sandwich makers and sandwich eaters about everything you can put between slices of bread.
1:29.6	That's all coming up after this news.
1:35.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
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