{"id":3776,"date":"2008-11-30T18:25:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T02:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2008-11-30T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T02:25:51","slug":"jonathan-gold-langers-the-lourdes-of-jewish-deli-meats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2008\/11\/30\/jonathan-gold-langers-the-lourdes-of-jewish-deli-meats\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Gold: &#8220;Langer\u2019s, the Lourdes of Jewish deli meats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite restaurant critic (and everyone else&#8217;s, for that matter), Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly, recently answered reader mail with a wonderful metaphor for Langer&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My instinct, of course, is to point you toward Langer\u2019s, which is the Lourdes of Jewish deli meats. Langer\u2019s corned beef is steamed to exquisite tenderness, and the crunchy-edged seeded rye bread is superb. Langer\u2019s knows from Russian dressing and is if anything rather overgenerous with the sauerkraut. I have long sworn fealty to what I have come to know as Old Number 44, although to tell the truth, I prefer the nippy cheese to the traditional slice of Swiss. (A Reuben is decidedly not kosher.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Visit LAWeekly.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/2008-11-27\/eat-drink\/every-reuben-is-a-work-of-art-39-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read the entire post here at the LAWeekly.com site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, as always, Jonathan, for your support &#8211; <em>from the Langer&#8217;s family<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite restaurant critic (and everyone else&#8217;s, for that matter), Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly, recently answered reader mail with a wonderful metaphor for Langer&#8217;s: My instinct, of course, is to point you toward Langer\u2019s, which is the Lourdes of Jewish deli meats. Langer\u2019s corned beef is steamed to exquisite tenderness, and the crunchy-edged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,22],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jonathan-gold","tag-la-weekly","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}