pastrami

Lunch at his Café Hitchcock included pastrami on rye, made with his house-dried beef.

Regardless how your morning goes, you can usually still have a pastrami sandwich in the afternoon.

It was conducted around a platter of pastrami sandwiches cut into quarters.

Next to the sign in the window that boasts “the best pastrami west of New York” another reads “free speech zone.”

But if you like pastrami—or, in my case, turkey pastrami—this is your spot.

Samuel P. Jacobs on some new efforts to preserve pastrami and matzoh ball soup for future noshers.