James Beard said that “too few people understand a really good sandwich.” Since 2009, Jon Chonko—founder, creator, and perhaps most importantly, eater of the website Scanwiches—has made it his mission to further global understanding of what makes a good sandwich, using nothing more than a flatbed scanner, an internet connection, and a weekly parade of sammies. His new book (titled, naturally, Scanwiches) features 68 mouth-watering portraits of sandwiches, scanned.
Scanwiches shows all that is good, toasty, saucy, and stacked about our current obsession, making it required reading here at sandwich week headquarters. Click through the photo gallery above to see Chonko’s top ten all-time favorite scans, and read our between-the-bread interview with Mr. Scanwich himself.
Photos courtesy of Jon Chonko and powerHouse Books.