The Viv Albertine sandwich
What a great city, where they think peanut-butter sandwiches are grown-up food and sell them everywhere. My favourite combinations are peanut butter with banana or with crispy iceberg lettuce.
Clothes, Music, Boys by Viv Albertine
When you pick up a new book, there's always a hint of mystery. One thing about me: I truly adore all biographies or even better: autobiographies. So, after I discovered Clothes, Music, Boys by Viv Albertine, I couldn’t wait to see where it was going to take me. No lies here: I loved that journey to the fullest.
Viv Albertine is telling her life story through the clothes that she wore, the music she made, and the boys she loved. Thanks to this book, you can also immerse yourself in the most exciting times when English punk rock was on top - starting from Sex Pistols, The Clash, and of course The Slits.
What’s more important: it’s a fascinating piece of writing full of tough choices. Ups and downs. Countless new beginnings and unexpected endings.
Let’s talk sandwich now…
Growing up in Poland in the 90s, as a kid you were 50% homemade food, the other 50% were ketchup crisps followed by orange bottled lemonade drank in front of a local shop so it was cheaper. When I think about sandwiches from my childhood, I remember such golden combinations as:
butter lettuce with salt,
in summer: fresh radish with ground cucumbers on a side, also with salt - salt was essential*,
slices of tomato topped with chives.
Peanut butter is a fairly new product in Poland. My first contact with peanut butter was when I heard a comment: you know what, I bought a jar of peanut butter today, I spread it on a slice of bread and it was salty, not sweet! Even tho I’m familiar with it now, sometimes my first reaction to peanut butter on bread is still: wait, what?
*It’s time for a fun salty fact: my mom is always telling the story of how I had too much salt in my kidneys as a kid because apparently, I’ve been eating chips like an addict. To this day, I don’t know if this is true or just a joke. I mean, is it possible? Let’s leave it here.
Peanut butter and…
Peanut butter sandwich with banana
Top it additionally with chia seeds and optionally: finish all by pouring some agave or maple syrup. Credits to Raw Nest, Kraków where I used to have such a sandwich for lunch at work.
Peanut butter sandwich with iceberg lettuce
Okay… this combination works! Get your bread, peanut butter, and iceberg lettuce to have the fastest and tastiest snack, lunch, small late-night dinner, you name it. All sandwich experiences are always better if you warm the bread!
