delicatessen
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“Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda with a crunchy delicatessen hot dog and round potato knish. Runner up: anything with a chocolate egg cream made with whole milk and Fox’s U-Bet syrup.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Her three siblings have already emigrated, and she is considering shutting down her small delicatessen to follow them abroad.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Opening her delicatessen just after lockdown, she has lived in the town for 12 years and has seen the number of independent shops flourish, even though "most High Streets have died these days".
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
From the pale, shredded stuff in the supermarket delicatessen to my own favorite homemade version that combines cabbage, kale and chard in a vaguely Asian dressing, it all works for me.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The farm has supplied restaurants including the Michelin-starred Les Crayères in Reims, as well as delicatessens and private clients, Franceinfo reports.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
They’ve recently embraced a unique kind of street style — one that’s emblazoned with logos of famous delicatessens and their most popular offerings, like knishes, pastrami, pickles and bagels.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
Learn how to roll with the best in an afternoon lesson from the sfogline of La Salumeria, one of the city’s best delicatessens.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 17, 2023
And many delicatessens were not able to survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Like all Jewish delicatessens, this shop contains everything that any patron is willing to buy, and in addition, elaborates the coffee-house idea into any shape that circumstances may suggest.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
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