One 'seaside club sandwich' recipe even suggests smoked salmon or cooked crab meat as an ingredient option. And 'meat' is smoked turkey, herbed chicken slices or honey-glazed ham or grilled bacon or all of them. Many centuries on, simple rustic bread is excitingly replaced by sliced white, multi- grain and croissants of the leaves: iceberg lettuce, arugula, rocket, indeed any favourite of any colour will do. As a result, he is recognised as the inventor of the 'sandwich', long before John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Hillel thought the bread represented the mortar used by Jewish slaves in constructing buildings for the Egyptians, while the filling between the pieces of bread served as a reminder of the suffering of the Jews. who combined nuts, spices, wine and apples, and spread them between a couple of matzot (unleavened bread), to be consumed with bitter herbs for the Passover. Incidentally, the first vegetarian sandwich noted in history was created by Hillel the Elder, a famous Rabbi of the 1st century B.C. In Mumbai, where most sandwiches are vegetarian, there are those who feel vegetarian clubs do not taste as good because they lack taste and texture. Candies in Bandra sells non-veg club sandwiches, consisting of chicken slices, cheese and a fried egg, for Rs 40 per triangle (half a sandwich). And the secret of the nonvegetarian ones is bacon because it provides the salty flavour." Practically all clubs across the country have them on their menus, in prices ranging from Rs 25 for a curried chicken and egg combination to about Rs 80 for one that includes bacon and ham with multi-grain bread. In the words of one fan though, "The bread has to be toasted and not too thick to bite nor should it be sliced too thin or the sandwich will fall apart. Sometimes, ham takes the place of bacon, and chicken of turkey untoasted bread is used as well. Also called 'clubhouse sandwiches', they are mostly two or threetiered affairs of turkey, bacon, lettuce, and tomato on toasted bread, which may be held together by toothpicks. Club sandwiches may have been invented in a New York gambling club in the 19th century but Alok Vegetarian Restaurant in Thane (West) gives them a new meaning this season, describing these delicious triple-decker sandwiches as 'relax foods' on their menu. Soon, word spread about the intriguing "club sandwich" and that, one hears, is how the name came to stick. The next time the man visited his club, he talked about the yummy experiment to his buddies, who insisted on tasting his invention right away. So he got himself some slices of cold bacon and pieces of chicken, and a tomato put them together between some bread, and went to bed satisfied. He raided the larder and found many things to eat, but they were all in tiny quantities. One evening, a man reached home after the rest of the household had retired.
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