Entries tagged with 'delis'
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Delis are a lot like religion and politics—be careful what you say or somebody will leave the conversation offended. People take a pretty serious stance on mustard type, knishes, and what city is the premiere deli city. David Sax, author of the blog Save the Deli (and the same-named book coming out in October) has chowed on pastrami in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris, London, and Poland, but thinks the magic is really in Los Angeles. There has been no grand decline in the L.A. deli scene. Most are packed, sometimes around the clock…The delis out there are bigger, are more comfortable, and ultimately serve better food than any other city in America, including the best pastrami sandwich...
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Many of us set personal records, but for David Sax, it's being able to name more Jewish delis than you in a minute. In this video, he achieves his goal according to The Universal Record Database, listing 30 in total, including classics like Zabar's, Stage, Katz's, Ben's, and Gottlieb's. Maybe there's some scientific evidence that corned beef stunts memory loss? Sax is also the creator of the blog Save The Deli, which inspired his same-named book coming out in October, available now to pre-order. The video, after the jump....
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jewzo.com We've already started celebrating the incoming Year of the Ox, but what would astrological signs be like if they were assigned Jewish deli foods instead? Luckily Jewzo, a company devoted to this made-up Jewish Zodiac, came along and answered our prayers. Year of the Pickle includes 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, and 2009. "You’re the perfect sidekick: friends love your salty wit and snappy banter but you never overshadow them. That shows genuine seasoning from when you were a cucumber. Marry a Pastrami later in life." No offense ox, but Year of the Lox also sounds like a party. [via Save The Deli]...
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Photograph from jslander on Flickr Taken at night, under awful lighting, and while keeping a whole bunch of hungry people at arm's length, the pictures here don't do justice to the food. They don't, for instance, capture the meltingly soft, tender texture of the lengua or cow's tongue, simmered in a thick, stew-like sauce. Neither do they capture the sharp tartness or the hot pepper bite of the cactus salad. And I didn't even manage to take a shot of the juicy, fatty carnitas or roast, marinated pork that were the star of the show – these were set upon and devoured far too quickly. Crisp cactus salad. So guys, I know these pictures leave much to the imagination....
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Vernor’s Ginger Ale, the green labeled brew which once had a crazy bearded Viking gnome as its mascot, is pure elixir of liquid nostalgia. While I grew up in Detroit, it was the ubiquitous beverage that filled the basement fridge at my Polish grandparent’s house. I still remember peering over a glass of the stuff for the first time and getting knocked over by stinging carbonated ginger droplets that shot up my nose. This still applies. Try huffing a freshly poured glass of it today and it’ll kill your nostril hairs like Chinese mustard. In addition to drinking Vernor's Ginger Ale all the time, every late November we’d head out to the annual Detroit Thanksgiving Day parade and eke out...
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Got a cool link from Serious Eatser 2qrs this morning: In the issue of The Cool Hunter newsletter I got this morning, one of the features was this deli in London: http://www.pierluigipiu.it/web/projects_olivino.htm. It is what I would imagine a delicatessen inside the MoMA would look like. You know, 2qrs, it is somewhat similar to what the Museum of Modern Art has going on in its Cafe 2 eatery, which is, as you'd imagine, über-designy. Thanks for the link!...
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Cuddlier and more efficient than exterminators and poison, the cats that prowl your local delis and bodegas hunting for rats and mice are getting busted by the NYC Department of Health as a health risk. You gotta ask yourself what's worse: a rat-killing feline or vermine noshing at your bread loaves? [via Gothamist]...
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Photographs by Robyn Lee In these modern times of high rises on New York City's Lower East Side, health fad diets, and increasingly hard-to-find high-quality ingredients (Where can you get a good rye bread these days? Does anyone dry-age pastrami anymore?), can the New York delicatessen survive? These questions were tackled Tuesday night at the Museum of the City of New York at a panel discussion titled "Jewish Cuisine and the Evolution of the Jewish Deli." The talk was moderated by food writer Matthew Goodman (Jewish Food: The World at Table), and the panel included food historian Joel Denker (The World on a Plate: A Tour through History of America’s Ethnic Cuisine); former New York Times restaurant critic Mimi...
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Mike Sula of the Chicago Reader says goodbye to Lincoln Square's Delicatessen Meyer, which shut its doors for the last time on Monday after 53 years in business. The Koetke family, which owned it for 48 years, sold it in 2004 to Hans Liebl, who started changing the inventory (classic German foods disappeared from shelves, and the Boar's Head logo appeared in the meat section) and eventually let the place go into foreclosure. Sula says, "Meyer's closing reflects the fading imprint of the neighborhood's once strong German-American population, which supported at least four really good delis and butcher shops until fairly recently. Now there's only one."...
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