{"id":3403,"date":"2010-12-12T19:34:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T03:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2010-12-12T19:34:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T03:34:42","slug":"uscs-two-block-around-the-park-project-langers-delicatessen-stands-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2010\/12\/12\/uscs-two-block-around-the-park-project-langers-delicatessen-stands-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"USC&#8217;s Two Block Around The Park Project: Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen Stands Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Heeger, a key member of the University of Southern California&#8217;s student journalism team responsible for the <a href=\"http:\/\/macarthurpark.ascjweb.org\/home\/\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Two Block Around the Park&#8221; project<\/a> (documenting life in the MacArthur Park area, home to Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen-Restaurant), recently put together a comprehensive look at Langer&#8217;s Deli as part of his participation in the project (part of USC journalism professor Hernandez&#8217;s class). Robbie did a great job, and we&#8217;re proud to have been featured by him. He put together multimedia and interviews, and <a href=\"http:\/\/macarthurpark.ascjweb.org\/food\/eatingout.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a complete review of his experience at Langer<\/a>&#8216;s. Here&#8217;s just an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Langer&#8217;s classical Judaic deli menu is as long as the arguments that can be overheard on a given Saturday afternoon. From potato pancakes and kishka \u2013 an Eastern European concoction of breading and chopped sausage \u2013 to matzo ball soup and of course, hot pastrami, Langer&#8217;s commands each dish on its menu like it&#8217;s grandmother&#8217;s cooking.<\/p>\n<p>The pinnacle of this restaurant&#8217;s menu however, was not its fabled pastrami, but rather its arguably most simple dish: the French fries.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, they are perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Jagged cut, golden brown, slightly crunchy on the outside and entirely too hot on the inside, the Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen French fries embody all that a fried string of potato should aspire to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macarthurpark.ascjweb.org\/food\/eatingout.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to listen to an audio interview with Trisha Langer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Heeger, a key member of the University of Southern California&#8217;s student journalism team responsible for the &#8220;Two Block Around the Park&#8221; project (documenting life in the MacArthur Park area, home to Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen-Restaurant), recently put together a comprehensive look at Langer&#8217;s Deli as part of his participation in the project (part of USC journalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}