On Lox & Life
A video interview from The Forward with Len Berk, the last Jewish lox slicer at Zabar's, with Melissa Clark, the New York Times food writer and cookbook author, moderated by Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Forward. Through the eyes of this retired New Yorker we see a story a story about food culture, the wisdom of age, our experience of the pandemic, and the melting-pot of ethnicity that make this city the great place that it is. Mr. Berk was a retired accountant who became a Lox Slicer at Zabar's one of Manhattan's culinary institutions. He’s a guy I’d like to meet.
