The best deli in town may be a movie. Deli Man is as wistful as it is exuberant since it deals with both a vanishing cuisine and institution that once comprised a world. The movie comes complete with a glossery of terms "stetl," "meshugah," "mitzvah," and "challah," because deli is and was a form of communication. Words like " gribenes," "cholent" and "lungen" are part of the vocabulary. "schmaltz" or chicken fat is referred to as functioning as a mixture of WD-40 and K-Y jelly in Jewish life. F...
The best deli in town may be a movie. Deli Man is as wistful as it is exuberant since it deals with both a vanishing cuisine and institution that once comprised a world. The movie comes complete with a glossery of terms "stetl," "meshugah," "mitzvah," and "challah," because deli is and was a form of communication. Words like " gribenes," "cholent" and "lungen" are part of the vocabulary. "schmaltz" or chicken fat is referred to as functioning as a mixture of WD-40 and K-Y jelly in Jewish life. F...
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