Comments on: Meet Team Save the Deli

By: Bradley Beach

Bradley Beach — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:45:03 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/nyregion/21about.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=publishing&st=cse

HMH not depicted too well in yesterday’s NYT. Careful.

By: Michael H ganz

Michael H ganz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:20:50 +0000

Thank you for introducing us to the wonderful staff of Save The Deli. In Long Island and New York City we are fortunate to have Ben’s and Mendy’s. Ben’s is also in Florida.

By: julia s

julia s — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:24:42 +0000

All the members of your team are helping promote a fabulous history and the cultural journey of Jewish delicatessen - keep up the good work, and we can hardly wait to see the book in the stores! Thanks for introducing them to your loyal fans!

By: djueat

djueat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:12:15 +0000

Good stuff. You’re a beautiful human being, David.

By: Pinchas Schwartz

Pinchas Schwartz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:17:03 +0000

Great memories and even greater food….thanks for helping us all relive those days and fine tastes over and over again.

By: mike mcgrath

mike mcgrath — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:08:46 +0000

David,

I’m looking forward to reading your book. The decline of deli culture is noticable but it probably has something to do with moving from NY and Philly to the San Francisco Bay Area. Just curious to know if your book tour will take you to SF. I hope so.

By: nate salter

nate salter — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:10:20 +0000

I follow your column with tears in my eyes. Being diagnosed with kidney failure two years ago, and being on home Dialysis is liveable, but what is making me crazy is the fact that deli meats are verboten due to their salt and nitrite content.

My savior has been Dave Gelberman at Wolfies in
Toronto, who has been making me roast beef sandwiches, deli sliced with hot mustard. Close enough when combined with the irresistable aroma of the deli itself, it makes the deprivation a lot more liveable. Thank you Dave because this combination causes me gastronomical satiation without getting me in trouble with my doctors.

Having lived my whole life in Toronto, having eaten at places like The original Shopsy’s and Switzers on Spadina and enjoyed the dining at Pancers and Colemans, the memories are making me hungry as I write.

In our family, to this very day, we celebrate family events with a large take out order of deli and while we are now over 13 when we all get together, at our home, regardless of how much we order believe me it all disappears.

One of my greatest pleasures is taking my grand Children, once they have teeth, to Wolfies for a nosh. You can’t teach them too young. You know when you look at it that way, a whole new generation are growing up and learning the joy of deli.