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Article: Capitol Hill Cafe; An Ode to Pretty Good Grilled Cheese
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- The Stranger
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- October 8, 2003
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WE EACH OF US have our perfect foods. I know someone who would as soon eat a whole avocado for lunch as anything else. My own perfect food is the grilled cheese sandwich, and yet it is very hard to find--here, with our dearth of Greek coffee shops--in its platonic form.
Perfect grilled cheese is buttery. All the sleek, expensive panini machines in the world can't make grilled cheese sing unless the bread is buttered on the outside. This gives grilled cheese its signature crisp sweetness, a wholeness--bread bridging two dairy moments--that takes it above the realm of a mere melt. Perfect grilled cheese is judiciously filled; there is a time and a place for bacon and tomato, to be sure, but a ...