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A Sandwich a Day: Short Rib Grilled Cheese from Saltbox in San Diego, CA

Short rib's fatty flavor profile makes it especially tasty with cheese. Saltbox's short rib grilled cheese sandwich ($11) is a solid argument in favor of the union of these two ingredients. The griddled sandwich on thinly sliced whole-grain bread is stuffed with creamy manchego cheese and juicy short rib finished in a New Orleans-style sauce piquant made with olive oil, tomatoes, and peppers.

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Sandwiched: Crisp Grilled Cheese

If it were socially acceptable, rather than a qualifying attribute to be a guest on Freaky Eaters, I'd eat grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner every night. And for breakfast each morning—although in that instance I'd to sneak a fried egg in the middle. Here's one I make when I have more time to enjoy the slowly crisping buttery bread and the quiet melt of a mound of curled-up orange cheese shavings.

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7 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches We Love in San Francisco

While there is nothing wrong with American cheese and buttered white bread, there is a whole exciting world of goudas and burratas, of olive oil slathered ciabatta and hot pepper relish. From traditional to nouveau, here are seven of our favorite grilled cheese sandwiches in San Francisco.

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A Sandwich a Day: Grilled Cheese Donut and Others from Tom & Chee's in Cincinnati

Grilled cheese is now the official overplayed food trend of 2011 and for the most part, it's not been a good one. Why anyone would pay up to $9 for the world's simplest sandwich—one that nearly anybody can make twice as well at home for under a quarter of the cost—was utterly beyond me, and I had little reason to expect that Tom + Chee, the three-location mini chain in Cincinnati would be any different. Turns out that this is a grilled cheese concept that actually works.

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A Sandwich a Day: DGGC from the Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, NH

The flavor combos at Friendly Toast may seem a little bonkers upon first read of the menu, and they are, but just have faith. A mojito milkshake? Falafel burrito? A grilled cheese made with both cheddar and American on cayenne-cheddar bread (cheese on cheese!) with an olive-garlic spread and strawberry-habanero dipping sauce? Wait, come again? But the DGGC, which acronymizes Damn Good Grilled Cheese, lives up to its name.

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A Sandwich a Day: Charles' Grilled Cheese at Jodies in Albany, CA

Jodie's, a warm hole-in-the-wall dining counter that's a treasured local secret in California's East Bay, is known for its Shopsin's-like menu of breakfast platters. Jodie and his grandson Charles are also quite handy when it comes to sandwiches.

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A Sandwich a Day: Almost Grilled Cheese from Con Pane in San Diego, CA

Con Pane's "Almost Grilled Cheese" ($4.35 for a half; $6.75 for the whole) relies on three basic ingredients: triple cream French brie, crumbled gorgonzola, and rosemary olive oil bread. Instead of being pan-fried in butter as with many grilled cheese sandwiches, it's oven-roasted, which warms the cheeses and delicately toasts the bread. Fresh roma tomatoes are an optional extra, but let's be honest—they're a must because they take the edge off the cheese and add a much needed note of sweetness.

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Snapshots from the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational in Los Angeles

It's a simple motto: Bread-cheese-butter-victory. Over 200 amateur cooks and professional chefs answered this call to arms at the Grilled Cheese Invitational on April 25, last weekend in Los Angeles. Cheeseaholics mobbed Center Studios downtown to gorge on thousands of sandwiches involving everything from Krispy Kremes to duck foie gras.

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10 Grilled Cheese Recipes We Love

April is Grilled Cheese month, and since we're already more than halfway through the month, there's really no time to waste. Grab that loaf and block of cheese, and start melting! Not that you can't celebrate every other day of the year. Here are ten of our favorite takes on the cheese-plus-bread glory.

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A Sandwich a Day: Caseus Grilled Cheese Truck in New Haven, Connecticut

The Caseus Grilled Cheese truck is the mobile offshoot of the Caseus cheese-shop-cum-bistro in New Haven. Using up the end bits of provolone, Swiss, comte, gruyere, gouda, and sharp cheddar from the shop, they melt the blend on buttered, toasted sourdough slices in the truck to order. In addition to the classic bread-plus-cheese ($5) you can throw on any number of add-ons for a buck each: guacamole, sweet applewood bacon, roasted red peppers, grilled onions, Jambon de Paris, tomato, or arugula. Look for daily specials on the colorful chalkboard out front.

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