A Mission To Save Real Jewish Delis, A Dying Breed

NPR ^ | 14 Oct 2009 | Greg Miller

[Roccus]

I just had a pastrami on rye for lunch. I love rye bread, almost all sandwiches taste better on rye - except maybe peanut butter and jelly.

Hint....toast the rye for the PB&J

[rahbert]

I guess only a true mensch could make a living running one of those...

[SJackson]

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[Slings and Arrows]

Manny’s in Chicago. The only reason to visit that fascist enclave.

[AGreatPer]

Just wondering if you can get a good NY Deli sandwich in Israel?

I have heard the main supply of meat is veal in Israel.
Don't know.

[Eleutheria5]

I worked for two years in a kosher deli, and the purists who wanted everything done like in Brighton Beach used to be a pain in the neck. Delis are simply places where people eat what they like. They get the food from where they can get it, depending on suppliers, what cooking facilities they have on hand, and health regulations. Brighton Beach was no different, and the cuisine served is a dynamic, commercial concern, which was constantly evolving then, and is still evolving. Sure, I occasionally cooked up some gribanis, which is fried chicken skin, but it’s so unwholesome and fatty that I felt I was murdering my senior citizen customers, so I stopped doing it. How un-”authentic” of me.

[BGHater]

‘How un-”authentic” of me.’

Gasp. You probably enjoy night baseball as well. Commie. /s

[Lurking Libertarian]

Ben's Best Kosher Deli on Queens Boulevard.

That really takes me back. When I was a young lawyer in New York, my cases would occasionally take me to the Queens County courthouse on Queens Boulevard. Every time, I would stop for lunch at Ben's, about two blocks away.

[Eleutheria5]

I hate sports altogether.