Tuesday
Feb142012
A Match Made in Delicatessen Heaven
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 1:00AM 
This Valentine’s day, I’d like to celebrate the union of two New York icons, pastrami and smoked salmon.
When I lived in the East Village, bagels and lox from the appetizing institution Russ & Daughters became a Sunday ritual. Providing everything you’d eat with a bagel to finicky New Yorkers since 1914, no one shows lox more love than Russ.
Among the catalog of cured fish, I found myself particularly smitten with the Pastrami-Cured Salmon, which Russ describes as “salmon smoked to perfection and then covered in a special pastrami rub of 14 different herbs and spices.”