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Sheldon > wrote:

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> Cucumber salad is a much better accompaniment to smoked fish than to
> typical deli meats... I've no idea why it's sold at the 2nd Ave Deli,
> other than it being a good profit maker. It goes very well with
> smoked whitefish and smoked sable, goes naturally with lox and
> pickeled herring of all sorts. This cucumber salad is typically
> served at kosher dairy restaurants, usually as a complimentary
> condiment the same as meat delis serve free sour pickles. At home it
> was the standard side for tuna/salmon salad. When my garden has a
> glut of cukes I make a very similar concoction only I make a small
> dice of young peeled cukes and add dark red kidney beans, and replace
> part of the vinegar with fresh squeezed lemon juice... the diced cukes
> and beans lends itself better to eating with a spoon, so I can shovel
> it in. Another favorite is to add diced beets... I call it Barb's
> Bliss... superb with a sardine on buttered pumpernickle sandwich --- a
> five pickle hat winner!

Like any self-respecting Jewish deli, the 2nd Avenue Deli has smoked
fishes on its menu.