It is known (albeit not evident) that hybridization and contamination are an effective and common stratagem to make trivial and boring stuff interesting.
The lamb is a cute but ordinary animal, and the jellyfish is good-looking in pictures but intolerable when you encounter it while bathing. Somebody thought to hybridize these two creatures in order to create a fluorescent lamb, maybe not very useful but stylish for sure, even just as an aperitif talking point. In 2014 someone even ate one by mistake.
When this process, like for the UNOTRE Christmas sandwich, is applied to things which are already heavily exciting the result could be quite destabilizing.
In the UNOTRE Christmas sandwich the fusion is between:
Grilled panettone
Smashed burger
Smashing burgers
Smashburger’s origin dates back over fifty years ago in Ashland, Kentucky, located in the Appalachian Mountains.
The story is that the original Dairy Cheer hamburger shop owner Bill Culvertson, created the “smashburger” when a worker discovered that smashing the meat with a No. 10 bean can while grilling was a great way to get the best flavor into a burger.
Out of that cooking method the smashburger was born.
The panettone
Don’t pretend to know everything about the panettone. Here’s some quick insight:
- the panettone is born from the permission, granted for Christmas only, for everyone to eat wheat flour, usually reserved for the rich and which the breadmakers were forbidden to use
- this bread was called “Pan de Sciori” or “Pan de Ton”, meaning bread of the masters, which was enriched with sugar, butter and eggs
- the first documented panettone recipe is from 1549
- panettone could also mean “big bread” but more probabily “big stick” (of butter)
- in the 1800s the habit was to send panettone as a thank you for doing business together
Very good
A big responsibility
Thanks to the UNOTRE Christmas sandwich the contamination served is also between Milanese culinary tradition and New York street food: the heavy baggage of historical credibility is immediately fused together in a sparkling Christmas star of modernity.
What’s inside
An infographic of the anatomy of the UNOTRE Christmas sandwich. For the most meticulous persons.
Artisanal panettone, grilled
With raisins, candied fruits and everything
Pickles and onions
To give the right acidity and kick
Special Chuck’s sauce
Secret but imaginable ingredients
Crunchy bacon
To better contrast the sweetness
Cheddar
It’s also colorful
Smashburger
Very very crunchy
Artisanal panettone, grilled
With raisins, candied fruits and everything
Made by Chuck
Chuck’s is the creature of Chuck George, a Rhode Island native raised between NYC and Virginia who decided to do the perfect smashburger.
Other random intelligence about Chuck:
- He often wears a black hoodie
- He can solve a Rubik’s cube in 10 seconds
- He’s the only one watering plants in the place where he opened Chuck’s
Black is a safe color for Chuck as his mental energy is focused elsewhere, at expressing himself through cooking. Clothing is more of a uniform for him, iconic™ but effortless
The most important ingredient: you
Whether you like it or not, tasting it is fundamental: personal taste is in fact the magical ingredient which is needed to seal the recipe. Whatever the response of your taste buds combined with your baggage of beliefs and convictions, with a bite to the UNOTRE Christmas sandwich you will complete the recipe, the experience, the contamination and the celebration.
Let’s learn from Christmas: whether you like it or not, the important part of a gift is the gesture of doing it and the joy of receiving it. But if you even like the gift, better
Made just for you
Having the UNOTRE Christmas sandwich
You can’t have it always (like Christmas) and someone needs to cook it for you (like sandwiches).
You can buy the UNOTRE Christmas sandwich at Chuck’s Milan in via Bonvesin de la Riva 3, on December 21 or 22, during the usual opening hours, until supplies lasted.
Chuck is in the place
Reserve it for free
If you want peace of mind, you can reserve your sandwich to be reasonably sure you will eat it. It is until supplies last, but reservations will help Chuck provide enough for everyone.
