IN CASE YOU'VE WORKED UP AN APPETITE, HERE'S A LOOK AT A CULINARY DELIGHT FOR THE AGES.

WHAT REAL NEW YORKER DOESN'T ENJOY A PAST RAMI ON RYE?

PERHAPS SOME RUGELACH FOR DESSERT?

YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE DELICACIES AND MORE AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION, I'LL HAVE WITH A SHE'S HAVING.

THE JEWISH DELI.

IT IS FROM THE RON-COM WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

KATZ'S DELI.

IT IS A SENAITING EXPLORATION OF THE RICH HISTORY OF THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE THAT MADE THE DELICATESSEN SO IMPORTANT TO NEW YORK CULTURE.

>> THE JEWISH DELI IS SO VERY IMPORTANT TO THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK BECAUSE A LOT OF JEWISH PEOPLE IMMIGRATED HERE IN THE LATE 19th, EARLY 20th CENTURIES, AND THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM FOOD AS PART OF WHAT THEIR HERITAGE WAS.

THE IDEA OF THIS EXHIBITION IS THAT NOT ONLY DOES IT SHOW WHAT WE HAVE IN THE DELI AND HOW THE DELI IS DEVELOPED, BUT IT IS AN EXHIBITION OF MEMORIES AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE JEWISH TO HAVE MEMORIES OF THE DELI IN NEW YORK.

WE START WITH THE IMMIGRATION AND VARIOUS OBJECTS THAT THE IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT WITH THEM.

THEY HAD TO BE SMALL OBJECTS BECAUSE THEY SPENT WEEKS ON THE BOAT COMING OVER HERE.

A LOT OF THE IMMIGRANTS CAME WITH CANDLESTICKS.

THEY'RE SMALL.

THEY COULD BE FIT INTO A SUITCASE.

THEY'RE A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF CELEBRATING THE SABBATH AND CELEBRATING THE SHABBAT.

SO MANY FAMILIES TODAY STILL HAVE THOSE CANDLESTICKS THAT THEIR GRANDPARENT OR GREAT GRANDPARENTS BROUGHT WITH THEM WHEN THEY CAME OVER ON THE BOATS.

THE IMMIGRANTS FIRST BEGAN TO SELL FOOD ON THE FOOT CARTS.

AND REMEMBER, THE PUSH CARTS LIVED OUT IN THE RAIN AND THE SNOW AND PROBABLY ROTTED.

THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD REPLICA.

THEY DECIDED, MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE A STORE SO WE DON'T HAVE OUTSIDE ALL THE TIME SO THEY SET UP A STORE FRONT.

THEN THEY THOUGHT, MAYBE WE'LL ADD SOME TABLES AND CHAIRS AND WE CAN HAVE A RESTAURANT AND THE DELI DEVELOPED FROM THERE.

>> SEND A SALAMI TO YOUR BOY IN THE ARMY WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DONE BY KATZ'S DELI.

THEY WOULD SEND THEM TO THE BOYS.

THEY'RE 18, 19 YEARS OLD, FIGHTING WAR FOR US IN WORLD WAR II.

THEY WERE EATING RATIONED FOOD.

WE HAVE A LETTER FROM A GI IN ITALY AND HIS PARENTS SEND HIM A SALAMI AND HE WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT IT.

HE WROTE HIS FIANCE BACK HOME IN THE U.S. AND HE SAID, I HAD A SALAMI AND IT WAS GREAT.

AND QUITE A DIFFERENT FARE THAN WHAT THEY HAD BEEN EATING IN THE TRENCHES.

IT WAS QUITE AN EXCITING LETTER.

AFTER THE WAR ENDED, THE DELIS BECAME A HAVEN FOR SOME PEOPLE AND SOMEWHAT OF A SECULAR KIND OF SYNAGOGUE WHERE THE SURVIVORS COULD GO AND FIND COMMUNITY WITH OTHER SURVIVORS.

SOME OF THE SURVIVORS CAME AND WORKED IN THOSE DELLIES.

IT BECAME A NEW HOME AFTER THEY GOT HERE.

THIS WAS DISCOVERED IN A DUMPSTER AND RESCUED AND IT'S A BIG PRESENCE IN THE EXHIBITION.

ALL LIT UP AND RENOVATED, SO TO SPEAK.

IT'S AN EXCITING THING TO COME SEE THESE NEON SIGNS FROM THE '50s AND '60s IN ENGLISH AND HEBREW.

THEY DON'T MAKE SIGNS LIKE THAT ANYMORE.

WE KNOW THAT HERE IN NEW YORK, A LOT OF PEOPLE MOVED OUT OF TOWN IN THE SUBURBS.

THAT JEWISH CLIENTELE THAT USED TO GO TO THE DELIS CHANGED.

AND THEN WE GET SOMETHING LIKE THE LEVY'S RYE BREAD AD CAMPAIGN IN 1963 WHERE IT THAT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE JEWISH TO LIKE LEVY'S.

THE NUMBER OF DELIS IN NEW YORK BY THE END OF THE 20th CENTURY HAS DECLINED QUITE A BIT.

THERE WERE THUNDERSHOWERS OF DELIS IN NEW YORK AND THE BOROUGHS.

NOW THERE ARE JUST A HANDFUL.

I READ ONE REVIEW THAT SAID YOU SHOULD EAT BEFORE YOU COME TO THE SHOW OR ELSE PLAN TO GO A DELI AFTER THE SHOW BECAUSE YOU'LL BE HUNGRY.