Skip to content

Top Navigation

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Recipes & Cooking
  • Drinks
  • Travel
  • Holidays & Events
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Subscribe Subscribe
Pin FB

Explore Food & Wine

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Explore

    Explore

    • F&W Cooks

      Food and Wine presents a new network of food pros delivering the most cookable recipes and delicious ideas online. Read More Next
    • Our 22 Best Crock Pot and Slow-Cooker Recipes

      Looking to amp up your beef stew but unsure where to start? A slow cooker can can take your comfort food to the next level. Read More Next
    • 50 Affordable Wines You Can Always Trust

      We’ve assembled a list of 50 of the world’s most reliable, inexpensive wines – bottles that offer amazing quality for their price year in and year out. Read More Next
  • Recipes & Cooking

    Recipes & Cooking

    See all Recipes & Cooking
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Comfort Food Recipes
    • Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Vegetable Recipes
    • Pasta & Noodle Recipes
    • Chefs
    • Meat & Poultry Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Appetizer Recipes
    • Side Dishes
    • Fruit Recipes
    • Seafood Recipes
    • Special Diets
    • Cooking Techniques
    • Steal This Trick
  • Drinks

    Drinks

    See all Drinks
    • Wine
    • Cocktails & Spirits
    • Coffee Drinks & Recipes
    • Juices
    • Beer & Brews
    • Champagne & Sparkling Wine
    • Tea Recipes & Ideas
  • Travel

    Travel

    See all Travel
    • Wine Regions
    • Restaurants
  • Holidays & Events

    Holidays & Events

    See all Holidays & Events
    • Valentine's Day
    • Halloween
    • Passover
    • Hanukkah
    • Christmas
    • Gifts
    • Super Bowl
    • Easter
    • Thanksgiving
    • New Year's Eve
    • Holiday Entertaining
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow us

  1. Home Chevron Right
  2. Sandwich Recipes Chevron Right
  3. Around the World in 17 Breakfast Sandwiches

Around the World in 17 Breakfast Sandwiches

By Food & Wine
Updated March 02, 2017
Skip gallery slides
Save FB Tweet
Credit: © David Malosh
To celebrate their new cookbook, the team from NYC’s Egg Shop shares some cheeky spins on a morning favorite.
Start Slideshow

1 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Credit: © Mumtaz Mustafa

Sometimes casual bets have deliciously high stakes.In the introduction to Egg Shop: The Cookbook, available March 21, Chef Nick Korbee describes how a friendly argument led him to create 17 new variations on the breakfast sandwich.After service one day, the team from the beloved Lower East Side brunch spot began to debate which item on their egg-focused menu was most popular. Korbee soon found himself at loggerheads with Egg Shop Founder Sarah Schneider: “I was so confident I asked Sarah to pick a number between 1 and 20. She picked 17, a bold move. I was hoping for a number under 10. But...the bet proceeded and the stakes were named. If Sarah was correct regarding which item had been the most popular, I would be obligated to create and prepare a tasting of 17 variations of the ham and egg sandwich.”Says Korbee, “I did not emerge victorious.”That’s a lot of sandwiches, even at a restaurant known for taking the ham-and-egg to new frontiers. Luckily for us, Korbee lived up to the challenge—and the team shared all the boundary-pushing breakfast sandwiches with Food & Wine. Check out Korbee’s 17 masterpieces below, and find even more egg-centric recipes in the new book. —Hannah Walhout

1 of 18

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Bourbon Boy

Credit: © David Malosh

If a NYC bodega bacon-egg-and-cheese flew South, you’d get this Dixie-inspired breakfast sandwich: sorghum-topped grits and Benton’s country ham on a jalapeño-cheddar biscuit.

2 of 18

3 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Cubano Con Huevo

Credit: © David Malosh

Korbee achieves the impossible, improving a Cuban sandwich—that perfect combo of ham, cheese, pickles, mustard and all that is good in the world—by putting an egg on it.

3 of 18

Advertisement

4 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Der Hammeister

Credit: © David Malosh

This Bavarian beauty features a fried egg with beer cheese, caraway-spiced onions and Black Forest ham on pretzel. Ja!

4 of 18

5 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Easterwich

Credit: © David Malosh

A play on Eggs Benedict featuring asparagus, ginger-honey ham, and a jolt of red-eye gravy in place of the classic Hollandaise.

5 of 18

6 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Going Ham

Credit: © David Malosh

This tower of biscuits and eggs with “chicken-fried ham and ham-fried chicken” is like the KFC Double Down’s grown-up sibling.

6 of 18

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

7 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Green Eggs and Ham

Credit: © David Malosh

Despite the Seussical name, this breakfast sandwich is through-and-through Italian: pesto eggs with double-cream ricotta and prosciutto crudo on pizza bianca.

7 of 18

8 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Ham Madame

Credit: © David Malosh

The Croque Madame—France’s favorite fried ham-and-cheese—gets a cheeky update with this toad-in-a-hole-style sandwich.

8 of 18

9 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Ham Radio

Credit: © David Malosh

Topped with four different international hams, this toasty egg sandwich will make you feel connected with ham enthusiasts around the world.

9 of 18

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

10 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Hamagatchi

Credit: © David Malosh

Korbee’s avocado-and-ham hand roll includes not one, but two types of egg: a runny quail yolk and wasabi-infused tobiko, or flying fish roe.

10 of 18

11 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Hamble on Rose

Credit: © David Malosh

This fried egg sandwich pays homage to the Grateful Dead with rose jelly, Canadian bacon (a possible nod to their legendary Festival Express tour) and classic San Francisco sourdough.

11 of 18

12 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Hamblin' Man

Credit: © David Malosh

A down-home egg sandwich featuring a combo of sweet corn pudding and fried bologna, making it the perfect hearty breakfast for roadtrippers, hitchhikers and train hoppers alike.

12 of 18

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

13 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Hamdlebar Mustache

Credit: © David Malosh

Hardcore ingredients—house-smoked ham, beer mustard, peasant cheese, Sriracha—make this the breakfast embodiment of a biker bar.

13 of 18

14 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Hamson and Delilah

Credit: © David Malosh

Get Biblical with this Middle Eastern-inspired sandwich featuring hummus, fattoush, hard-boiled eggs and halal/kosher turkey ham on pita.

14 of 18

15 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Holiday in Waikiki

Credit: © David Malosh

This eggwich incorporates island flavors, like grilled pickled pineapple, as well as other Hawaiian culinary influences—like Portuguese-inflected pan con tomate and SPAM-style fried ham.

15 of 18

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

16 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

I Ham What I Ham

Credit: © David Malosh

Treat yourself with this unapologetic ham-and-egg sandwich featuring healthy accents like spinach spread, shaved green beans and a drizzle of olive oil.

16 of 18

17 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

I Ham Who I Ham

Credit: © David Malosh

Described as a “stairway to ham heaven,” this three-story sandwich with layers of kale frittata and country ham might help you achieve nirvana.

17 of 18

18 of 18

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Will.I.Ham

Credit: © David Malosh

Can you spot the wordplay? This biscuit and egg sandwich features Ferguson ham and black-eyed pea hummus.

18 of 18

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

By Food & Wine

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook
Trending Videos
Advertisement
Skip slide summaries

Everything in This Slideshow

Advertisement

View All

1 of 18
2 of 18 Bourbon Boy
3 of 18 Cubano Con Huevo
4 of 18 Der Hammeister
5 of 18 Easterwich
6 of 18 Going Ham
7 of 18 Green Eggs and Ham
8 of 18 Ham Madame
9 of 18 Ham Radio
10 of 18 Hamagatchi
11 of 18 Hamble on Rose
12 of 18 Hamblin' Man
13 of 18 Hamdlebar Mustache
14 of 18 Hamson and Delilah
15 of 18 Holiday in Waikiki
16 of 18 I Ham What I Ham
17 of 18 I Ham Who I Ham
18 of 18 Will.I.Ham

Share options

Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Login

Food & Wine

Magazines & More

Learn More

  • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
  • Books from Food & Wine
  • Contact Us
  • Media Kit
  • Content Licensing

Connect

Follow Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Other Meredith Sites

Other Meredith Sites

  • 4 Your Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Allrecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • All People Quilt this link opens in a new tab
  • Better Homes & Gardens this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Insights this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Surveys this link opens in a new tab
  • Cooking Light this link opens in a new tab
  • Daily Paws this link opens in a new tab
  • EatingWell this link opens in a new tab
  • Eat This, Not That this link opens in a new tab
  • Entertainment Weekly this link opens in a new tab
  • Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Hello Giggles this link opens in a new tab
  • Instyle this link opens in a new tab
  • Martha Stewart this link opens in a new tab
  • Midwest Living this link opens in a new tab
  • More this link opens in a new tab
  • MyRecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • MyWedding this link opens in a new tab
  • My Food and Family this link opens in a new tab
  • MyLife this link opens in a new tab
  • Parenting this link opens in a new tab
  • Parents this link opens in a new tab
  • People this link opens in a new tab
  • People en Español this link opens in a new tab
  • Rachael Ray Magazine this link opens in a new tab
  • Real Simple this link opens in a new tab
  • Ser Padres this link opens in a new tab
  • Shape this link opens in a new tab
  • Siempre Mujer this link opens in a new tab
  • Southern Living this link opens in a new tab
  • SwearBy this link opens in a new tab
  • Travel & Leisure this link opens in a new tab
Food & Wine is part of the Meredith Corporation Allrecipes Food Group. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
© Copyright . All rights reserved. Printed from https://www.foodandwine.com

View image

Around the World in 17 Breakfast Sandwiches
this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.