David Swanson
@davidswanson.bsky.social
New Yorker, Scotsman, editor, writer, map and archive nerd Politics, culture, and sandwiches at https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
today's sandwich is the xis gaúcho, a brazilian hunk o beef on bread so naturally i went absolutely apeshit learning all about gauchos, the whip-wielding, maté-drinking, knife-fighting outlaw horsemen of the pampas!!! CLICK FOR KNOWLEDGE buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #150: Xis Gaúcho
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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in today's essay i discuss -gaucho pants -black market tallow trading -the vast, vast pampas grasslands -a homoerotic bar fight in an old novel -equestrian feats -a beef sandwich buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #150: Xis Gaúcho
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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Today: everything you ever wanted to know about Marmite, Vegemite, vitamins and the Great War: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #149: Vegemite
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, an...
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in which i take a lot of words and quoted wwi diaries to say i like vegemite better than marmite: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #149: Vegemite
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, an...
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One month after 9/11, Rolling Stone published a special issue with stories from David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Kurt Loder, and more. Many are online for the first time today to mark the 25th anniversary of the attack. Read: www.rollingstone.com/p/9-11-remem...
In lunch discussions, when people ask "do you know what I'm in the mood for?" I always reply in the form of a question "a peanut butter and pickle sandwich?" and so this essay is very validating for me, personally.
Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 3w agotoday at the sword and the sandwich, @davidswanson.bsky.social explores the weirdness of the PB&P: peanut butter and pickle. featuring: the history of pickles!!!!! buttondown.com/theswordandt...
today at the sword and the sandwich, @davidswanson.bsky.social explores the weirdness of the PB&P: peanut butter and pickle. featuring: the history of pickles!!!!! buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #148: Peanut Butter and Pickle
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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i wrote about, as Poland's national poet calls it, "the ancient and decorous rite of the mushroom hunt": buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #147: Zapiekanka
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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today's newsletter is about Canadian bacon (what it is and isn't), why Toronto is nicknamed Hogtown, and Barbra Streisand demands a sandwich: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #146: Peameal Bacon
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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The Kindle book is $2 today! You too can be engaged, terrified and depressed for less than the cost of a latte! (Sorry to link to Amazon, but.) www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America - Kindle edition by Lavin, Tal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America.
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Dibbley@nostyle-gimbo.bsky.social · last mo.@swordsjew.bsky.social Wild Faith: Simply terrifying book. Explains so much: workers' rights, climate change, foreign interventions, Palestine etc., all make much more horrible sense. Your descriptions & explanations are beautifully crafted. Thanks for making me engaged, terrified & depressed.
in which we discuss -a thousand years of japanese pescatarianism -emperor meiji eats beef -ramen and black markets -the rise of japanese worcestershire sauce buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #145: Yakisoba-Pan
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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On the Welsh rarebit, Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, what dreams cheese can cause and what it means when you dream of cheese: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #144: Welsh Rarebit
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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Just an extraordinary joyous version of Fairytale of New York at Shane's funeral www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptay...
Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill Perform "Fairytale of New York" at Shane MacGowan's Funeral
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i'm doing anti-harassment training videos for work and when this one part talked about gender being a spectrum they showed b-roll of different types of packaged sandwiches at a grocery store
Try the sandwiches Helen Rosner calls “messy, oozing, saucy, and insistent.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lpecu_
A New Crop of Unapologetic Sandwiches
Sanwits, in the East Village, serves a glorious mashup of American sandwich styles and frank Filipino flavors.
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"This case, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is about a sandwich." -opening of the incredible defense summary of Sean Dunn aka Sandwich Guy aka American Hero, sandwich and man: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #1: American Hero
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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Glad you asked!!! Look for The Book of Notable Sandwiches: A Lunchtime History of the World next summer!!!
Chris Otto (Papergreat)@papergreat.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat is this book and when should I look for it?
any Polish speakers on bsky want to help me research sandwich history? I Need Your Help, dm me or email talialavinwrites at gmail
I wrote about why a turkey is called a turkey, what they call a turkey in Turkey, what's in a name, and the story of the bird that makes such a good club sandwich buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #142: Turkey
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"Let us contemplate, for a moment, the crucial binding agent in the glorious loaf that is the smörgåstårta: mayonnaise. And how it intersected with my own private madness, so that, for a time, I became insane about it. Mad about mayo." — @swordsjew.bsky.social
Notable Sandwiches #141: Smörgåstårta
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finally it's here my magnum opus a greasy grind through historical grit the mayonnaise essay, or, mayomento mori buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #141: Smörgåstårta
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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so what happened was, i read nine john le carré books, then i saw the pictures of the preposterous drapery SCIF at mar a lago where the iran war was being conducted, and then i thought about how many spies there must be at that place and then i wrote a short story buttondown.com/theswordandt...
The Submarine of Czechia: Or, The Life of a Spy at Mar-a-Lago
A version of this short story was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. This is most definitely a work of...
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today at the newsletter, free: an adapted excerpt from my book Wild Faith, about evangelical Christian prophecies about war in the Middle East and the end of the world & how they influence US foreign policy: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Yearning for the Apocalypse
As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...
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every mystery of the sloppy joe revealed! i debunk its connection to ernest hemingway! we discuss the loosemeat sandwiches of iowa! the fashion movement around "sloppy joe" sweaters ca. 1940! the french concept of "nostalgia for the mud"! buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #140: Sloppy Joe
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"The beef dry and granular as mortar in the temple of a forgotten god; the sauce at once totally opaque and yet watery; the bread reverting to its medieval function as a trencher to sop up this collusion of juices...." on the sloppy joe: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #140: Sloppy Joe
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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