Good Morning America: Jacob Bernstein on Nora Ephron

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Langer’s Delicatessen was the location for an ABC News Good Morning America interview by Chris Connelly with Jacob Bernstein, son of our beloved late friend Nora Ephron, who has just produced a documentary on her life entitled “Everything Is Copy,” now showing on HBO. They sit at the counter and discuss the documentary, then enjoy Nora’s favorite sandwich, pastrami on rye.

Thank you, GMA, Jacob, Chris and especially producer Natasha Singh for including us in this great interview! – The Langers

 

Condolences to the Family of Nora Ephron

All of us at Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant would like to extend our condolences to the family of Nora Ephron, who passed away yesterday at 71 in Manhattan.

A true friend of Langer’s Deli, Nora wrote eloquently about our pastrami in The New Yorker in 2002, which you can read excerpted here.

She will be missed.

 

Nora Ephron image by David Shankbone. Wikipedia License.

Serious Eats New York: The Great Pastrami Taste-Off: Katz’s in New York vs. Langer’s in Los Angeles

Famed food columnist and reviewer Ed Levine has published part 1 of his two-part “Great Pastrami Taste-Off” pitting Katz’s of New York and Langer’s of Los Angeles. Who will win this incredibly important showdown?! Read on for the introduction:

Ever since I wrote my pastrami story for the New York Times a few years ago, I’ve wanted to conduct a taste test between Katz’s Delicatessen in New York and Langer’s Delicatessen in Los Angeles. Why? Many reasons, actually. I never tasted them side by side for that story. Nora Ephron opined on the record in the New Yorker that Langer’s served the best pastrami sandwich in America. Jonathan Gold stated categorically that Los Angeles has a far superior deli culture to New York’s. David Sax said the same thing in his book, Save the Deli.

So aiming to settle this East Coast vs. West Coast rap-style pastrami controversy, we decided to conduct a definitive pastrami taste test. And we invited the Los Angeles apologist herself, Nora Ephron, to participate. She graciously accepted, in record time.

Who wins part one? Click here to read the article and find out!

Photo credit: Carey Jones / SeriousEats.com