Just like you can't leave Peter Luger without ordering steak, you really can't go to
Ben's Best Delicatessen without biting into a pastrami sandwich. In this latest episode of
Food Curated from documentarian
Liza de Guia, we meet
Jay Parker, the third generation owner of the deli in Rego Park, Queens. He started as a grill boy at age 13, where his job involved making sense of frenetic orders: "four with, three plain, two with mustard, hoo behhh fehhh faster, faster!" (that was pretty much a direct quote from the video). But even years later, the pastrami is still slow-cooked exactly the same way.
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The timeless rivalry between D and L? Unless you count competitive barbecuing I’m not much for sports. But if I had to declare a baseball allegiance, it would be to the Mets, mainly for geographical reasons. I was born...
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"I'm going Uyguring" isn't something I get to say very often, but I wish it were. As far as I know, there are only three restaurants in New York City that specialize in Uyghur cuisine, the food of Central...
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Bone handle makes meat pie eating easy! As a resident of the Queens nabe known as Rego Park-istan, due to its high concentration of Uzbekis and other Central Asian immigrants, I’m no stranger to the savory pies known as...
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David Sax is a young food writer in Toronto who has dedicated himself to saving the Jewish deli. He's very passionate and zealous on this subject, so I wasn't surprised that yesterday he sent me a splendid link to his...
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