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I’ll be in New York in less than a week doing preparation for the upcoming Fuck the Recession Party, and you know what I’m most looking forward to?  New York Jewish deli.  Seriously, there’s NONE in San Francisco.  Well at least no good deli.  I mean really, have you ever had a pastrami sandwich at Katz’s Deli?  It will forever change the way you look at sandwich meat.  And for once I’m not exaggerating.  I’m forever saddened by the fact that the closest place to get good deli is Los Angeles.  Heartbreaking, I know.

If you’re a deli aficionado like myself, then you should go see Ted Merwin speak tonight at the BJE Community Library.  According to what I read over at Johnny Funcheap’s site:

Ted Merwin, a scholar of American Jewish culture, will discuss his forthcoming book, Homeland of the Jewish Soul: A History of the Jewish Deli. Merwin suggests that the deli occupied a status on par with the synagogue as a communal gathering space; as such it became a primary place for Jews to strengthen their connections with their roots and simultaneously move into the mainstream of American society. The overstuffed deli sandwich, named after the celebrities of the day and served in New York’s theater district, thus became a tangible symbol of their reach for the American Dream.

Damn, just reading that paragraph makes me hungry, in a kosher kind of way.

Lecture on the History of the Jewish Deli
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis St. @ Pierce [Western Addition]
Wednesday 9/30

7:30pm
FREE

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

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