Cholent to Challah: Favorite Foods from Jewish Delis
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Even if you didn't grow up eating these foods, sitting down to a helping of slow-cooked beef cholent or potato knish instantly feels like coming home. They are comfort foods, pure and simple. In a recent Saveur article, David Sax visits Jewish delis around the world, getting to the heart of what makes these dishes so good.

Jewish delis can be found around the world, from New York to Budapest and Toronto to Paris. Sax peeks into the kitchens of many of them and shows how the migration of Jewish families from eastern Europe both transformed and preserved traditional dishes.

The online article includes a particularly excellent slideshow of traditional dishes with links to their recipes. Matzo ball soup? It's here. Challah? You got it. You'll want to bookmark this one and work your way through each dish, we promise!

• Read the Article: Roots of the Deli by David Sax for Saveur
• Slideshow: Recipes from Jewish Delis Around the World

What's your favorite dish from the deli?

(Images: Landon Nordeman/Saveur)

Comments (3)

I could probably eat 3 or 4 lbs of chopped liver in one sitting. I'm sure my cholesterol would love me.

My mother's recipe uses gribbnes and shmaltz, and it is the most delicious thing I've ever eaten.

And this is why most of us are overweight.

@simplist... Not sure if you were being tongue in cheek or what, but I grew up on this food, as did my mom, and her mom....not one of us is overweight, and are in good health. My grandmother is 89, and still bakes challah on friday morning in prep for the sabbath. This is real food, not highly processed, fake stuff. And we eat it in moderation. Doritos, twinkies, and 37 ounce lattes with huge amounts of sugar are what make people overweight...