Pastrami on rye
Subtitle: an overstuffed history of the Jewish deli
By: Ted Merwin
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780814760314
Subjects: Delicatessens; Social life and customs; Jewish cooking; Jews; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name; title: According to the Customer's Desire: The First Delicatessens in Eastern Europe and the United States; title: From a Sandwich to a National Institution: Delicatessens in the Jazz Age and the Interwar Era; title: Send a Salami: Delicatessens During the Second World War and the Postwar Exodus from New York; title: Miss Hebrew National Salami: The Movement to the Suburbs and the Decline of the Deli; title: Conclusion: The Contemporary Jewish Deli: Whistling Past the Graveyard.