soup and sandwich

'soup and a sandwich' may be the most riffed-upon comfort food theme i know. thomas keller's version is now famous and features a cup of early-girl tomato water and a brioche toast sandwich stuffed with aged farmhouse cheddar. baudrillard would be proud. today, in no-name, i saw a tray of what looked like toasted rice cakes. i figured they were croutons and got a cup of ramp and potato soup (like a hot vichyssoise, but better -- ramps are garlic greens and have that same spicy aromaticity as garlic but with a more vegetal overtone) and put one in it. john came up behind me and suggested that i try one on it's own: it turned out to be a circular sandwich of thin-sliced brioche and cowgirl creamery goat cheese, toasted and then brushed with clover stornetta butter infused with butter.