The Sandwich and The Queen!

Queen Rania of Jordon has taken a page from her own life experience and written a sweet story about it in her new children's book entitled"The Sandwich Swap".

Queen Rania's story is based on an incident that took place at the international school she attended as a child. At lunch one day an American school mate sat down next to her, opened her lunch box and took out a sandwich oozing with gooey, brown and purply substances. Upon seeing it, the Queen curled up her lip and went back to eating her own lunch, a pita pocket full of hummus.

Before long, the girls swapped sandwiches and became fast friends. The Queen fell in love with peanut butter and jelly, and her American mate couldn't get enough of the savory hummus.

Once again, our world shows us how a wholesome little sandwich can be a metaphor for life, and in this case a lesson in diversity.

The Sandwich Swap is a lovely new tale that introduces children about bridging the gap between cultures, ideas and sandwiches!

Naturally, I love this story!!!

Lily and Salma are best friends. They play together and stick together through thick and thin. But who would have ever thought that ordinary peanut butter or plain old hummus could come between them? Lily and Salma don’t quite understand each other’s tastes, but does that mean they can't be friends?

Sandwich, A Tango!

Hello mes amis....

As you know, I love to reflect upon the sandwich, what it is, what it does, how it is made and indeed enjoyed. It has occurred to me on more than one occasion that sandwiches are like people. Varied in sizes, shapes, colors and substance. Some tacky, others refined, some steeped in tradition, some out of the ordinary, extraordinary, even avant-garde. Heaven-sent on the mean streets where life is greasy and hard, stacked high and mighty in rarefied neighborhoods where life is rich and filled with entitlement.

I am in love with the concept that a benign and ordinary thing such a sandwich, is a metaphor for life, at least in my world this is true, as noted in previous posts on the subject. As a noun, a sandwich is just that. As a verb, to sandwich means to fit something into a tight space.

I was most intrigued to learn that Sandwich describes an Argentine Tango move, where the leader traps one of the follower's feet between his two feet. Often his feet will be left and right of the follower's foot as two slices of bread. The follower's foot would be the filling of the sandwich. Although, the leader can cross his feet to trap the follower with the left foot on the right and right foot on the left.

The move is called "El Sanguichito", and if you log on to YouTube.com, use the search bar, type the words tango sandwich and watch Dario's Tango Guide Lesson #6, The Sandwich. Exquisite, don't you think? Sam