Jason Barrett Photography: Something New - and Delicious!

16 August 2010

Jason and Erin E. Barrett recently visited Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant and the results are nothing short of amazing. The reason, you see, is that Jason is a professional photographer, and Erin is a professional writer. The combination is nothing short of compelling:

Now, I am not a food critic, nor am I a professional blogger on the topic of food, but I will do my best to describe the experience. I am not a huge fan of the cured meats (bacon excluded), but for this particular sandwich, I will make an exception. In the past, I have had pastrami that was too fatty, too dry, and just too much. But this was a special brand of pastrami, my friends. The meat itself was a gorgeous red wine color, with a dark, almost black crust on the outside. The chefs were generous, but there wasn’t too much meat, as so often is the case with pastrami sandwiches. On top of the hot pastrami rested the coleslaw (just juicy enough), the dressing, and the cheese. All of these ingredients were piled high, but well contained in the most perfect rye bread I have ever eaten. The crusts were perfectly crisp, but the center of the bread remained soft and pliable, so that when you picked up the sandwich, the bread seemed to form around the ingredients inside, creating a kind of bread cage for all the goodness within.

Yep, it's that good. Click here to read the entire essay and view Jason's awesome imagery of the visit