Bauru (sandwich)
Bauru is a popular Brazilian sandwich. The traditional recipe calls for cheese (usually mozzarella) melted in a bain-marie, slices of roast beef, tomato and pickled cucumber in a French bun with the crumb (the soft inner part) removed.[1]
The Bauru has a fairly well documented history. In 1934, a student at the Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco, Casemiro Pinto Neto[2] (known as Bauru for coming from that city), entered Ponto Chic,[3] a traditional eatery and student hangout, and asked the cook to prepare a sandwich from his specifications.[4] "Bauru's Sandwich" was an immediate hit, and eventually became the best-selling dish at the place.[5]
Many other eateries, though, offer sandwiches named Bauru with different combinations of ingredients -- for instance, using sliced ham instead of roast beef or sliced bread instead of French bread. The city of Bauru eventually named the traditional Bauru as the city's official sandwich, codifying the recipe in a municipal law and instituting an official certification program.[6]
References
- ^ "Official recipe" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Biography of the creator" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Ponto Chic, the birthplace of the Bauru" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ "Casemiro tells the story himself" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2007-09-23. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ "History of the sandwich" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Certification program" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2007-10-23.