{"id":3702,"date":"2009-10-16T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2009-10-16T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:51:14","slug":"savethedeli-com-hand-slicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2009\/10\/16\/savethedeli-com-hand-slicing\/","title":{"rendered":"SavetheDeli.com: Hand Slicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Sax of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethedeli.com\/2009\/10\/15\/atlantic-food-blog-5-for-better-deli-meats-slice-by-hand\/\" target=\"blank\">SavetheDeli.com<\/a> has an interesting piece up on the merits and traditions behind hand-slicing deli meats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Langer\u2019s Delicatessen, in Los Angeles\u2013home to the greatest pastrami sandwich in America\u2013owner Norm Langer took a blackened piece of pastrami out of the steam box, slapped it on the wooden counter, and began methodically slicing, flipping the meat over and around, excising tough connective tissue. \u201cWhen you cut it on a machine, you won\u2019t cut out this,\u201d Norm said, removing a slimy yellow membrane with a twist of the knife. \u201cThis thing is like chewing a racquetball. It has the consistency of a diaphragm. If you cut your meat on a machine, that is going to be in your sandwich.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethedeli.com\/2009\/10\/15\/atlantic-food-blog-5-for-better-deli-meats-slice-by-hand\/\" target=\"blank\">Read the complete story here &#8211; it&#8217;s definitely worth the click<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Langer&#8217;s is hosting an exclusive booksigning event with David Sax on October 28th<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vromansbookstore.com\/david-sax-save-the-deli\" target=\"blank\">click here to sign up now for this limited availability event!<\/a> The event includes lunch, a signed copy of David&#8217;s book (plus a chance to meet David), and a $10 Langer&#8217;s Gift Certificate for use on a subsequent visit to the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>[av_video src=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LNovhXWO5oI&#8217; format=&#8217;16-9&#8242; width=&#8217;16&#8217; height=&#8217;9&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sax of SavetheDeli.com has an interesting piece up on the merits and traditions behind hand-slicing deli meats. At Langer\u2019s Delicatessen, in Los Angeles\u2013home to the greatest pastrami sandwich in America\u2013owner Norm Langer took a blackened piece of pastrami out of the steam box, slapped it on the wooden counter, and began methodically slicing, flipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50,66,31,51,44],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-news","tag-david-sax","tag-hand-cut","tag-pastrami","tag-save-the-deli","tag-video-2","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","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=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}