Jewish Deli

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Immigrant history | The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Deli; The story of an outlet that is less a shop than a cultural icon.  Economist, Dec 12, 2015.
http://www.economist.com/news/bo ... -icon-rise-and-fall
(book review on Ted Merwin, Pastrami on Rye; An overstuffed history of the Jewish deli. NYU Press, 2015)

Note:
(a) "JEWISH delicatessens may now be known for knishes, latkes and pastrami sandwiches, but back in their heyday, during the 1920s and 1930s in the theatre district in New York, they also served beluga caviar, pâté de foie gras and Chateaubriand steak."
(i) knish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knish

Go to images.google.com to see its outer appearance.
(ii) potato pancake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_pancake
(section 1.5 Jewish latke)
(iii)
(A) pastrami
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastrami
(section 1 Etymology and origin)
(B) In 1999 I was an inmate at a county jail of Massachusetts, and tasted pastrami for the first time, It was heavenly.
(iv)  
(A) beluga caviar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_caviar
(of the beluga sturgeon Huso huso)
(B) beluga (sturgeon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon)
(The common name for the sturgeon, as for the unrelated beluga whale, is derived from the Russian word белый (belyy), meaning "white")
(iv)
(A) Chateaubriand steak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaubriand_steak
(section 1 Etymology)
(B) Châteaubriant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teaubriant
(section 2 Toponymy)

(b) “Jewish classics were gussied up and defiled: chopped chicken liver was served with truffles. Treyf, like oysters and pork chops, was eaten with abandon alongside kosher delicacies.”
(i) gussy up (vt; origin unknown): “DRESS UP; EMBELLISH”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gussy%20up
(ii)  For treyf, see treif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treif
(also treyf, among others)

(c) “The first delicatessens sold mostly German food. For early Jewish immigr

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(c) “The first delicatessens sold mostly German food. For early Jewish immigrants, deli meats were an indispensable reminder of home.”
(i) delicatessen (n; etymology)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delicatessen
(ii) German English dictionary:
* Delikatessen (noun feminine): "delicacy (pleasing food)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Delikatesse

(d) “After his Broadway shows Al Jolson, a famous Jewish singer, would invite the whole audience, Jew and gentile alike, to join him at Lindy’s delicatessen. Martin Kalmanoff, a Jewish songwriter, wrote that at the Stage Deli, ‘You’ll find debutantes with poodles eatin’ hot goulash and noodles.’ “
(i) Al Jolson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson
(born Asa Yoelson [Asa was third King of Judah in Old Testament]; 1886 – 1950)
(ii) goulash
(A)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash
(B) pronunciation
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goulash

(e) “hip new restaurants are seeking to reinvigorate the deli by serving embellished classics like bone-marrow matzoh-ball soup and chicken-liver terrine with verjus gelé. Such attempts to evoke the past may succeed where they least expect it—delis have been bastardising tradition for a century.”
(i)
(A) terrine (n; French): "liver or meat that has been chopped into very small pieces and cooked in a special dish"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrine
(B) terrine (food)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrine_(food)
(photo)
(ii) verjus (n): "alternative spelling of verjuice"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verjus
(iii)
(A) RodzillaReviews, Verjus Gelee. Flickr, Dec 21, 2012.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rodzillareviews/8418334725
(B) gelee (n; French gelée.): "any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gelee
(iv) bastardize (v): "bastardis"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bastardize