New Boston Deli Serves Up Haimish Eats and Yiddish Vocab
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
Don’t look for fusion kreplach or molecular matzo balls at Mamaleh’s, which opened in Boston last week. The menu’s a mix of straight-up deli classics, from borscht and blintzes to latkes and noodle kugel.
A pastrami knish is as experimental as the lineup gets; if anyone’s tried it, we want to hear from you.
Do look for a little Yiddish lesson when you visit the website. Today, we found the definition of Noodge: “A PERSON WHO PERSISTENTLY PESTERS, ANNOYS OR COMPLAINS. ALSO A VERB: TO ACT LIKE A NOODGE (FROM YIDDISH ‘NUDYEN’ TO BORE).”
Michael Kaminer is a contributing editor at the Forward.
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