{"id":3684,"date":"2009-10-31T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2009-10-31T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:41:33","slug":"los-angeles-magazine-meat-and-greet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2009\/10\/31\/los-angeles-magazine-meat-and-greet\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Magazine: Meat and Greet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Los Angeles Magazine attended David Sax&#8217;s &#8220;Save the Deli&#8221; booksigning event at Langer&#8217;s on October 28, 2009, and filed this report on their &#8220;The Digest Blog&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe gangs are waiting for me back in New York!\u201d joked David Sax, author of the new book Save the Deli, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) before a crowd of about 50 who\u2019d gathered to fress and hear him speak at Langer\u2019s Delicatessen yesterday afternoon in what has to be the most unorthodox Vroman\u2019s Bookstore reading of all time. Sax was referring to the scornful reaction from New York\u2019s deli-going denizens incited by perhaps the ballsiest assertion in his new book: that L.A. is the best deli town in the country. Sax, who is from Toronto (full disclosure: we\u2019re old friends from that city; he now lives in Brooklyn), refuses to take sides. \u201cI\u2019m not even from New York! I\u2019m a neutral third party, like all Canadians!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lamag.com\/eat\/blog_post.aspx?id=21721&amp;blogid=948\" target=\"blank\">Click here to read the complete article at LAMag.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Los Angeles Magazine attended David Sax&#8217;s &#8220;Save the Deli&#8221; booksigning event at Langer&#8217;s on October 28, 2009, and filed this report on their &#8220;The Digest Blog&#8221;: \u201cThe gangs are waiting for me back in New York!\u201d joked David Sax, author of the new book Save the Deli, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) before a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50,64,51],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-sax","tag-los-angeles-magazine","tag-save-the-deli","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}