All Brooklyn news
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Special sections
About The Paper
Mobile site
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds

Is Sarah Zorn’s sandwich the best in the borough?

By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper

Tools

Print this story
Facebook this
Tweet this
Digg this
Del.icio.us

Everyone in Bay Ridge is talking about food blogger Sarah Zorn’s renowned panini, which took home the grand prize the Robicelli’s Gourmet Market sandwich contest at the Third Avenue Festival on Sunday — but what do the minds and mouths of the Fourth Estate have to say?

After downing a few Zorns, The Brooklyn Paper’s elite team of food journalists concurred that concoction — which comprises prosciutto, roasted tomato and eggplant, Brie, and a balsamic reduction atop ciabatta — earned its praise.

“This is exceptional — don’t change a thing!” said Senior Reporter Ben Muessig. “It takes a special sandwich to carry a $9 pricetag, but this sandwich is just that special.”

Newly anointed Brooklyn Paper reporter Will Yakowicz called the sandwich “harmonious and balanced,” and later suggested that the combination of interplay between the roasted eggplant, warm Brie, and salty prosciutto was “historic.”

But Brooklyn Paper naysayer and editor Gersh Kuntzman deemed the Brie too “gummy … gummy” and the eggplant too chunky, suggesting instead an aged provolone and a more thinly sliced vegetable medley.

“I don’t use chunks of eggplant — I just don’t do it,” Kuntzman said.

©2009 Community Newspaper Group

←Park Slope: Thieves were wheel jerks this week
→Fort Greene: Two campuses, two crimes

Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

New Era Development Group

Links