On the Lower East Side on Houston Street, within two blocks of each other, you can visit both Russ and Daughters and Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery. Within these establishments on most Sundays, one can find Jews from all over New York and the US taking a gastronomic trip down memory lane by chowing down on all manner of bagels and shmears and lox and smoked fish and knishes and kugels and latkes. They bring their kids with them, they get all misty as they bite into the food their parents and grand parents used to eat. This scene gets repeated over and over, wherever the Jews are - from Schultzy’s in Miami to Schwartz’s in Montreal, from Canter’s in LA to Goldberg’s in Paris. Never mind that this food is mostly unkosher and not particularly Jewish - what’s important is that Jews sure do love their Old Timey Jew Food!
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Esther Kustanowitz // April 6, 2008 at 7:35 am
You think that’s a high density of Jewy food? The LES also boasts an annual Pickle Festival, at which all the LES pickle vendors display (and let people sample) their wares…you haven’t lived until you’ve stood in a line three city blocks long for a free pickle.
Florida « Stuff Jewish People Like // April 6, 2008 at 9:08 am
[...] they get to visit Bubbe and Zaiyde too. Add to that the existence of many establishments that sell Old Timey Jewish Food and really, it’s no wonder the Jews love the State of Florida. Well all except for the North and [...]
DK // April 23, 2008 at 5:39 pm
“you haven’t lived until you’ve stood in a line three city blocks long for a free pickle”
Now that’s a bunch of Jews.
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