American Grilled Cheese Kitchen

Grilled cheese sandwiches are so hot right now! There are cookbooks devoted to them, contests that feature them, and food trucks that drive around making them. There are also restaurants that have entire grilled cheese menus! Last night I went to San Francisco's first grilled cheese eatery, The America Grilled Cheese Kitchen, for a demonstration hosted by Tillamook cheese.

The event was a promotion of the Loaf Love Tour, a bus that is traveling the country "bringing tasty cheese to the people." After sampling some of the restaurant's most sought-after creations, chef Heidi Gibson taught the small crowd how to make a grilled macaroni and cheese sandwich. To learn more about the newest craze in the grilled cheese world and to get Gibson's technique for making one at home, read on.

Grilled cheese sandwiches are one of our all-time favorite foods and it looks like OnSugar blogger Nancy, of Between the Bread, loves them too. Here, she shares her favorite spots for enjoying a scrumptious grilled cheese.

Grilled cheese sandwiches are one of the great American comfort foods: almost all of us have memories of someone we love grilling up cheese sammies with care. Not surprisingly, this delicious simplicity lends itself to nostalgic one-upmanship and friendly competition, including an annual Grilled Cheese Invitational and my own local Grilled Cheese-Off.

The very basic requirements — bread, cheese, meltiness — lend themselves to countless creative combinations, resulting in another modern grilled cheese phenomenon: the grilled cheese sandwich-centric restaurant. Check out five temples to the tasty classic after the jump.