Ted Merwin
Auteur van Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
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Ted Merwin is Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, where he is Founding Director of the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life. He writes about Jewish theater, dance, and food for the New York Jewish Week and other major newspapers and magazines.
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But in the third generation, delis were beaten back by the forces of Jewish assimilation and over-righteous healthful eating, only to become glitzy tourist attractions like Katz's and the Second Avenue Deli (two remaining locations, neither on Second Avenue).
This enjoyable traipse through the big heavy glass doors and the menus as big as billboards also includes a brief trip to the appetizing store. Now THAT would be a book!… (meer)