Latest rap beef wraps in Drake, rhinoplasty and pastrami
The beef finds Jewish rapper Drake at the center of a rather unprecedented pile-on that some observers believe has antisemitic overtones
The beef finds Jewish rapper Drake at the center of a rather unprecedented pile-on that some observers believe has antisemitic overtones
How a Newfoundland chef’s stew of smoked meat and split peas becomes a pastrami pea soup in Brooklyn
New York's Jewish, Muslim, and Black communities converge around deli sandwiches at David's Brisket House, where everything is strictly halal
When Elizabeth Heitner, 26 years old and newly sober, stared at the Pacific Ocean and contemplated what to do next, she thought back to her happiest times growing up. For some families, holiday dinners require days of brining, chopping and parboiling. For the Heitners in their Upper East Side apartment, a Passover seder or a…
A new kosher deli wants to fill the pastrami-scented void left by long-departed Manhattan stalwarts Carnegie Deli and the Stage. Pastrami Queen, which opened inside Times Square’s sleek Pearl Hotel last week, is serving up house-made blintzes, old-school tongue sandwiches, and even chicken in the pot to sometimes befuddled tourists and seen-it-all locals. The eatery,…
Gianluca Tonelli, the putative pastrami king of Tuscany, has the blues. Despite his passion, despite the klezmer blaring from his food truck, and despite the adorable porkpie hat on his head, he can’t seem to get his fellow Italians to eat the meat. As the New York Times reported, even as other street foods have…
“Send a salami to your boy in the army.” That slogan is how Katz’s Deli kicked off its shipping business back during World War II. In more recent years, the Lower East Side house of pastrami has shipped corned beef, pickles, knishes, soup and yes, of course pastrami (both sliced and whole) to deli lovers…
Carnegie Deli will serve its last mile-high pastrami sandwich today at midnight, despite a late offer from a former dishwasher to buy the restaurant for $10 million. Upper West Side restaurateur Sammy Musovic washed dishes for a year at the deli in the 1970s. He said he offered the money to save a landmark “that…
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