Word: rye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nowhere else in the world are sandwiches taken so seriously, and nowhere else do they make up so large and diverse a culinary discipline. Passions run high in defense of personal favorites and the proper way to make them: Should the bread that holds tuna salad be white or rye, plain or toasted? Is mayonnaise, Russian dressing, butter or mustard the correct spread for ham or turkey or roast beef? Does lettuce have any place at all in a sandwich of sliced meat, and if so, should the lettuce ever be iceberg? The Easterner regards the California predilection for mayonnaise...
...based on the East European- Jewish delicatessen meats, corned beef and pastrami, and the high priest of the genre is Leo Steiner, who oversees the action at the Carnegie Delicatessen & Restaurant. Half a pound of meat or more is thinly sliced and deftly layered between slices of seeded rye bread. "Not just anyone can build a sandwich like this," says Steiner. "It has to be many thin slices folded at the edges so there is the right texture, and the meat must be even on the bread so the customer doesn't bite through empty sides. That takes training...
...relay orders to the sandwichmen behind the counter. Because pastrami can sound a lot like salami when shouted out in a busy, noisy dining room, it is known as "pistol." A "pistol with a shot" means that coleslaw will be added. If the cus- tomer wants his sandwich on rye toast, the waiter hollers "whiskey down." A pistol "dressed" indicates that Russian dressing is to be used, and anyone discovered eating pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort of insult the late Zero Mostel is said to have hurled when he heard such...
Balson, who described "Ramsey" as a novel about growing up in Los Angeles, says, "My book is in the vein of Catcher in the Rye and Portrait of the Artist as A Young Men. Stylistically, I'm inspired by Joyce and Faulkner. They are my heroes...
...could capture Catcher in the Rye on film, though one supposes that Frances Coppola or a Michael Cimino could spend a couple dozen million trying. Of course either would give us lot of grass--acres and acres of golden grass--with a Wagnerian soundtrack, but it would still feel so ... phony...