Delicatessen (gastronomy)
See also: Delicatessen (homonymy)
The word delicatessen , that the Québécois Office of the French language translates by pork-butchery or delicatessen according to the context, indicates a type of store of food or place of restoration, primarily in the Anglo-Saxon countries, where it is often shortened in the form deli . The term, of origin German E ( delikatessen ), refers at the base with the products of delicatessen. Its direction can differ from one country to another: thus, if the significance given here applies to the the United States and the Canada, in certain areas of Australia, this term indicates a store of proximity, often late open the evening.
Delicatessens in North America
The delicatessens that one finds with the the United States and the Canada function, for the majority, primarily on the basis of sale to carry products ready to consume. They constitute a true institution of the urban landscape, allowing to the townsmen in a hurry wearied standard products of Fast food, to be restored quickly and to find in the same place all which they need when they want neither to cook on their premises, nor time to eat at the restaurant.
The delicatessens are in particular typical places of the New York, most famous being certainly Katz' S Deli , in which a scene of the film was turned When Harry meets Sally .
The delicatessens are generally at the same time places of fast-food industry and grocers, the offered products being mainly fresh produce. The afficionados estimate that they find there menus more varied much and healthy that in the chains of restaurants of Fast food, insofar as the offer of the delicatessens does not rest primarily on cracklings, and where the sandwiches are, generally, prepared with the order.
Even if there exists large delicatessens, the majority of them are gravers of small size.
One typically finds in the delicatessens products ready to consume, such as sandwiches, salads, soups, omelets, meats and cheeses, in a kind strongly influenced by the Jewish kitchen Ashkenaze, originating in Europe of the East. Thus, the mets are often accompanied by pickles, large typical bitter-sweet gherkins of these areas.
Their reputation is due much to their offer as regards meat (smoked meat or pastrami), sold in sandwiches, but also with the weight.
The delicatessens propose also hot drinks and cold, as well as products of pastry making and bakery (in particular of the Bagel S).
The Delikatessen in Europe
In Germany, Suisse and Austria, the Delikatessen (with “K” and not “C”) indicate stores of another kind that the North-American delicatessens. Traditionally, the Delikatessenläden (“delicatessen”) Germanic sell products of grocer of luxury intended for the kitchen at home, and not of the products of sale to be carried.
Use of the word in Canada
One finds with the Canada the two meanings of the word: it frequently preserves its German direction of origin at certain categories of people going down from the first generations from European immigrants.
Some delicatessens famous
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Katz' S Deli and 2nd Which occurred Deli , located at Manhattan, New York
- Schwartz' S and Ben' S, famous restaurants of sandwiches to the smoked meat of Montreal
- Canter' S , to Los Angeles
- Dallmayr , delicatessen of Munich, Germany
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