Some Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

There’s a lot to be said for many of the foods we’ve known more or less forever. Often it’s their very familiarity that’s nourishing, but some have some good culinary points, and the grilled cheese sandwich is a classic. Even the simplest grilled cheddar cheese on white bread is a great sandwich, with the crisp, golden bread covering the warm melted cheese—clear tastes and good, contrasting textures. Cheese Dreams, the open-faced melted cheese sandwiches of the fifties, also combine the pleasing contrasts of crisp bread with a soft, unctuous covering of cheese. Sometimes the simplicity of a sandwich—just bread and cheese—is refreshing, but if you tend to make lots of grilled cheese sandwiches and crave variety, here are a few new ideas and variations on the theme of toast and cheese.