old-world

The Old World is never old until it’s gone, but in “Train Dreams” one feels it passing.

There’s an obvious appeal: Smoked to a deep mahogany color using Old World techniques the company’s founder carried with him as an immigrant from Poland, this is a turkey you don’t have to roast.

The Aztec emperor Montezuma, one could say, was dethroned not so much by Cortés as by Old World germs and New World enemies.

That Stanfa was Old World made him not only an outsider resented by the likes of Merlino, but one who operated on a different level of ruthlessness.

On Nov. 9 at around 5 p.m., this tradition continues in Huntington Beach’s Old World Village.