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Author David Sax is a man on a (delicious) mission. His goal? To preserve the delicatessen tradition. His new book, Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), is a mouthwatering paean to corned-beef culture. The Oct. 20 launch party for his book, appropriately, was held at Ben's, a sprawling delicatessen in Manhattan's Garment District. Between bites, TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with the knish connoisseur. (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...this book? Because Jewish delicatessens are an endangered species and I didn't want to see them go away. I wanted to find out why they were disappearing...
...What makes a good deli? And how many did you visit while writing your book? I visited about 150, 160, something like that. I don't have an exact tally...
...What's your favorite deli? I don't have one. You see throughout the book I talk about a lot that I love, but there's no one absolute favorite...
...world did you keep from gaining weight on your book jaunt? Portion control. If I went into a number of delis in a day, I would taste everything that was put in front of me, but I wouldn't finish it, because I didn't have enough room in me to finish it. And, you know, regular exercise, but nothing insane. I didn't go on a cleanse or a diet after, and maybe my cholesterol is 30,000 or whatever, but this is food I feel good eating as long as I don't eat too much...