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What The Heck Is A Bolillo?

Nancie and I were watching the Food Network channel this morning. We often watch the Sandwich King program on Sunday mornings, because we both love sandwiches. Today was a Mexican-inspired sandwich - chicken molé torta. This is pretty standard (I guess, as I've never had it) chicken molé on a roll called a "bolillo". The website gave the recipe for the chicken, with a link to Food Network's glossary for the word "bolillo". It took a bit of searching for me to find that they actually did have a recipe for bolillos (bolilli?) on the site (so why didn't they just link to the recipe? You might think...)

Which got me thinking: Jeff Mauro, the chef who is "the Sandwich King", did a good job of describing what a bolillo is, and how it looks and tastes; but he didn't talk at all about what it was, or how it was made. He didn't even mention that there was a Food Network recipe for it. Now I understand that bread is probably not the most exotic, or exciting, kind of food; and at two or three hours, or more, to make, it's not going to be on a "You have 20 minutes to make something out of these ingredients" type of show. And that's okay with me. But sometime, somewhere, maybe someone could give a recognition of how important bread can be. (Especially for this show—I mean, bread is pretty vital for a sandwich.) Could we maybe have a cooking show where bread was the star?

Just an idea. God speed, all, and remember: All sorrows are less with bread.

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  1. DanSeptember 25, 2011 at 9:51 PM

    That's something that bugs me about the show. He will go on a tour of the local wholesale meat market, describe the toppings down to the smallest detail, but completely ignore the bread.

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