Pastrami (1916);Yale Food Column gets NY Times mention; still no "hot dog" story

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PASTRAMI
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Next time I'm in NYC, I've gotta check the New York Tribune  (1900-1910) for 
any "pastrami." This is the best the revised OED has?
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(OED)
 
pastrami, n.

orig. U.S.
Forms: 19- pastrami, (rare)  pastrame. Plural  pastramis.   
Highly seasoned smoked beef, usually  served in thin slices; (as count noun) 
a serving of this, esp. as a filling in a  sandwich. Later also in extended 
use: other meat or fish prepared in a similar  manner.  
1920  N.Y. Tribune 31  Jan. 12/5, I would have..said: ‘Give me ten cents 
pastrami,’ so  as not to let on that I suspected something. 
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16 January 1916, Syracuse (NY)  Herald, pg. 5:
"Even so, Zapp, there's lots of fellers in the delicatessen  business which 
is obliged to run automobile deliveries, and for every penny  they've got to 
pay more on gasoline, they stick two cents a pound on pastrami  oder 
Frankfurters.
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YALE FOOD COLUMN IN TODAY'S NEW YORK TIMES (STILL NO "HOT DOG")
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Why do I even bother checking out the Wednesday NY Times food section  
anymore? Or the New York Times, for that matter?
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A sophomore who writes a monthly column on food in the Yale Daily News just  
got a nice NY Times write-up. What did he write--five columns this school 
year?  Andrew Smith wrote about 12 BOOKS on food and never got such press in the 
NY  Times.
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Maybe someone could tell this Yale sophomore that "hot dog" comes  from Yale? 
That story sure as hell hasn't made the Yale Daily News or  the New Haven 
Register or the New York Times these past twelve years. It would  be nice to get 
this published before we all die.
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In other news, Andy Borowitz (a Yale history professor) published an  opinion 
piece in the New York Times last Sunday that the hamburger was born at  New 
Haven's Louis' Lunch. It's documented that this is not true. I would write  in 
to the Times for a correction, but I get more satisfaction slamming my head  
into a wall.
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Does the New York Times print EVERYTHING from Yale?
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Will the New York Times ever get something as simple as "hot dog" and  
"hamburger" right?
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/dining/31yale.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slo
gin_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/dining/31yale.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slogin) 
In a Yale Dining Hall, Independent Study at the Microwave 
 
By BRYAN MILLER
Published: January 31, 2007
(...)

Mr. Marks has garnered no small degree of celebrity around campus for his  
culinary legerdemain, which he often shares with fellow students in a monthly  
column in the Yale Daily News.
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/opinion/nyregionopinions/28CThorowitz.html?
ex=1170651600&en=c6b28ec734dd4105&ei=5070&emc=eta1_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/opinion/nyregionopinions/28CThorowitz.html?ex=1170651600&en=c6b28ec73
4dd4105&ei=5070&emc=eta1) 
Op-Ed Contributor  
Our Beef With Texas 

 
By ANDY HOROWITZ
Published: January 28, 2007



 
New Haven 
SURELY a town founded in Texas in 1850 and named Athens is no stranger to  
grandiose historical claims. Still, a bill introduced by Betty Brown, a member  
of the Texas House of Representatives, declaring Athens “the original home of  
the hamburger” seems awfully foolish, especially to those of us here in New  
Haven, home to Louis’ Lunch, true birthplace of the hamburger sandwich. And  
though it would be easy to make a case for more pressing concerns, I am glad  
that Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has taken the time to defend New Haven’s claim on 
 national television. 
The facts of the case have been certified by the Library of Congress: Louis  
Lassen, who founded Louis’ Lunch in 1895, was the first person to put ground  
steak between two pieces of bread (the hamburger bun had not yet been invented 
—  the restaurant still serves its burgers on toast) and thus altered the 
course of  American culinary history. He did that in 1900. Athens, which also 
claims to  have ushered in the “modern age of the black-eyed pea euphoria” 
(whatever that  means), can trace its claim to the hamburger only as far back as 
1904. 
(...) 
It is right for the mayor to stand up for Louis’ Lunch and the Lassens now,  
because the city owes them one. Ken knew, long before City Hall seemed to, 
that  cities are made by men and women, every day, their significance built out 
of the  memories that give the bricks of the city their meaning.  
When interviewed recently about the dispute over the home of the hamburger,  
Jeff Lassen, Ken’s son, said it wasn’t about business, it was about family 
and  history — “and we know we’re right.” 
Let us not stop defending our city’s history. Let us not stop boasting of Eli 
 Whitney and his cotton gin, of A. C. Gilbert and his Erector Set, or of how  
Buffalo Bill Cody carried a Winchester rifle, built with pride in New Haven. 
Let  us not even stop boasting about how New Haven native Charles Goodyear 
invented  the rubber tire, even though it was by accident.  
And for the love of everything good, let us not stop boasting about those  
landmarks that need no memorials, because they are still alive and with us. Let  
us celebrate Frank Pepe’s pizzeria, which still turns out the thin-crust 
pizza  it perfected more than 80 years ago. Let us celebrate also Yale University, 
 founded by New Haven residents in 1701. Let us rejoice about ground beef, 
cooked  in century-old vertical ovens, served between two slices of toast with 
tomato  and onion and served here, first. And let us rejoice in the city we 
have made  and sustained for ourselves and one another. 
In other words, we appreciate Ms. Brown’s sentiment, but Athens needs to find 
 its own thing.  
Andy Horowitz, a lecturer in history at Yale, is the director of  the New 
Haven Oral History Project.

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