O Carnegie Deli Adieu

O Carnegie Deli, Adieu O Carnegie Deli, Adieu, we'll see no more of you. In year when so many noted others have left New Yorkers will soon become pastrami bereft. They'll no longer be able to fill their belly with huge piles of it from the Carnegie Deli piled incredibly high within fragrant seeded rye. So accompany me and shed a big tear for the heart attack food of yesteryear. HzL 12/30/16 Carnegie Deli, closing Saturday, serves its last sandwiches in NYC ... www.amny.com/.../carnegie-deli-closing-saturday-serves-its-last-sandwic... 2 days ago - New Yorkers and tourists are lining up to say goodbye to the Carnegie Deli. Marian Harper is the owner of the iconic deli. She inherited the restaurant from her father. David Verdini/Courtesy of Carnegie Deli "They know to come here hungry," says Harper. "They love the big portions. My father called it gargantuan sandwiches, he used that name." The deli's oversized portions and over-the-top attitude made it an essential New York experience. "The Carnegie is really the New York Jewish deli," says Ted Merwin, professor of history at Dickinson College, and the author of Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli. "It's a symbol for what I call the ethos of excess." Merwin says restaurants like the Carnegie Deli and its longtime rival, the Stage Deli, played an important role in American Jewish culture. http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/12/23/13_09_27-verdini_carnegie-deli-182-2--55_custom-013a37fd2cf43f277df8031cf2f91025281179b5-s1200-c85.jpg