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To: lawdog who wrote (25442)	7/25/2000 3:09:20 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

My parents never kept kosher, so I grew up on oysters and clams and crabs. But in addition, I grew up on smoked fish, primarily lox (salmon) and whitefish and sable. I admit, I have usually gotten Nova rather than belly lox in the last few years, since I tend to share with my wife, who did not grow up on the stuff. Whitefish can be too dry, but is very tasty, and sable is quite a delicacy, almost as much as lox. My favorite deli is in Silver Spring, MD, right outside the District, and historically a predominantly Jewish area, still somewhat heavy with synagogues and temples. Ben Stein, who has a couple of shows on Comedy Central, has appeared in small roles in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Wonder Years, and The Mask(as well as numerous commercials), is an author, and teaches law at Pepperdine, grew up there. Anyway, I like to start with borscht, and maybe split an order of chopped chicken liver with my wife. Then we usually split a fish platter. All of the food that we associate with Jewish delicatessen are actually delicacies of the region, particularly Russia and the Baltic States, with a few German and Polish things thrown in. But for millions of us of Eastern European Jewish descent, they are one of the few links we have left to our heritage. I am fortunate in having a gentile wife who likes to eat this stuff. In fact, her favorite deli sandwich is pastrami and chicken liver on rye. What a woman!