 While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Meg Ryan was onto something - January 14 is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day. Like most good life inventions, pastrami was created out of necessity. The preparation, which includes curing the meat, was ideal for saving valuable protein back when refrigeration didn't exist. The Romanian word for preserve – a păstra - is considered the root word of "pastrami." Pastrami came to the U.S. via the Romanian Jews who settled in New York. Sussman Volk, a butcher, claimed to have introduced the hot pastrami sandwich in 1887 at his Delancey Street deli. As the story goes, in return for letting an acquaintance store some luggage at his shop, Volk got the man’s pastrami recipe. At first, Sussman sold the meat in chunks, but then started slicing it thickly and putting it on bread with some mustard. He started selling out of the meat almost immediately and soon turned his butcher shop into a restaurant. |
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Richard Schwartz, did you just wake up from the 60's? Meat is an essential nutrient, especially if cooked properly. No ill feelings, you are probably healthier than most of us. My daughters are all vegetarians and my son and I make up for it. Sorry.
Please forgive me, but as President of Jewish Vegetarians of North America, I feel it important to point out that for these few bites of Pastrami, multiplied by the many people eating them and other animal products, many animals are cruelly treated on factory farms, many people's health is impaired, and there are major contributions to climate change, water shortages, soil erosion, deforestation, rapid species loss, and other environmental problems. A major shift to plant-based diets is essential in order to shift our imperiled planet to a sustainable path.
I'll switch to plant based diets when all other primates do
corned beef is pictured, not pastrami. come on, try harder.
Pastrami looks and smells like something between Lindsey Lohan's lower extremities.
Dan Pastrami–one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of ALL time. Without the bread.
only if it looks and taste like the picture.....