delicatessen

Example Sentences

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He imagines himself at the butcher shop, shoving “long slabs of rib meat unbitten into my mouth,” eating “dirty delicatessen stores completely empty” and having “bonbons … poured into me like hail from their tin boxes.”

From Washington Post

Rather, writer Roger Angell noted, the stout and bearded Mr. Josephson “assaults a variety of hallowed precepts and revered institutions … orders a bagel from a nearby delicatessen, and when it arrives, eats it, audibly.”

From Washington Post

“What does this mean when Jewish culture becomes part of a museum exhibit?” said Ted Merwin, the author of “Pastrami on Rye,” a 2015 history of the Jewish delicatessen.

From New York Times

Without those luscious steak juices, a steak would be merely delicatessen roast beef.

From New York Times

‘I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli’ The humble origins of the Jewish delicatessen in America are traced via photographs, menus, neon signage, etc., in this tasty exhibit on view through Sept. 5.

From Los Angeles Times