Deli Man

2015 ""

Deli Man

7.1 | 1h31m | en | Documentary

Every story needs a brave and trustworthy guide, and Deli Man’s is the effusive and charming Ziggy Gruber, a third-generation delicatessen man - his uncle and great-uncle owned Berger’s in the diamond district, and the Woodrow Deli on Long Island. His grandfather owned the famous Rialto Delicatessen on Broadway, and Ziggy was stuffing cabbages atop of a crate when he was eight. Now he is owner and maven (as well as a Yiddish-speaking French trained chef) of one of the country’s top delis, Kenny and Ziggy’s in Houston – yes, Texas…Shalom y’all. Of course the story of deli isn’t Ziggy’s alone. Deli Man has visited meccas like the Carnegie, Katz’s, 2nd Avenue Deli, Nate ‘n Al, and Canter’s, as well as interviewed some of the great connoisseurs of deli, including Jerry Stiller, Alan Dershowitz, Freddie Klein, Dennis Howard, Jay Parker (Ben’s Best), Fyvush Finkel, and Larry King. - ComingSoon.net

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Cast

Larry King , Jerry Stiller , Fyvush Finkel

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David Sperling

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rkhen This movie places the food centre-stage. And it's the most incredible food you've ever seen. Even raw, being turned into delectable dishes, it's to die for. I watched this over two nights, while eating dinner. And it still almost killed me. And I'm a great cook. If you possibly swing it, watch this on some mobile device while eating way too much food in a Jewish delicatessen somewhere. As the film itself points out, that's hard to do, since in all of North America there's only 150 left. But otherwise, you're going to be really hungry for several days. One small complaint: they left out Montréal. C'mon, guys! The smoked meat sandwich that's MTL's world-famous signature dish was a gift to that city from Jewish delis! They're the reason the French language now contains the word « le smoked meat ». Great. Now I'm jonesing for _that_. Anyway, see the movie. If I could eat it too, I would.

don keegan One of the best Documentaries to come along in ages. It was so good I could taste the mile high sandwiches of my youth in New York & Miami. When I moved to Beverly Hills, Nate & Al's was my first stop.Then came Canter's, Langer's, Fromins and the list goes on. It's a whole history lesson on Jewish Culture & Deli Humor not to be missed. Even Irish & Italian Catholics from Brooklyn in the 1940-1960s could understand Yiddish as a second language when I was a kid. Today our young Putz's can't even talk, they text. Ziggy is an National treasure and I'd love to sit down one of these days with him an Nosh. I don't understand why this film isn't being show in every major city in America that has a good sized Jewish Population.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . so much so that it sometimes detracts from a viewer's ability to give thought to food, the ostensible subject of this documentary. This flick is crammed full of interviewees too numerous to keep straight (without a giant scorecard, at least), but one of them observes in the opening minutes that the Confederacy had more Jewish generals during the American Civil War than the Union Army. In DELI MAN's final minutes, another of the contemporary title characters talks about his annual Seder dinners to commemorate the Jewish People's flight from slavery in Egypt. Between these two passages, I was sensitized to look hard for the presence of African Americans among the deli patrons and workers pictured. Though there was a healthy sprinkling of Hispanic People and Asians mixed among the many Jews and non-Jewish White People, I honestly could not spot a single Black person. DELI MAN leaves me with the impression that because most of the descendants of Jewish slaves in America fought to PRESERVE Black slavery here, most of today's African-Americans won't touch kosher food with a ten-foot pole.

Quietb-1 Here's a fun Documentary on the Deli business and the unusual and interesting men who make the Deli business their life. In addition to the Deli men there are some good cameos that add to the insight.There's a romantic element that ends in a destination wedding. It is interesting that the business is very similar in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Houston. The basic message of good food and a hands on warm welcoming personality seem universal elements of success.The movie like most Documentaries is in very limited release. Watch for it soon on a home platform. Seek it out, it is interesting and entertaining.