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Celebrity chef Nick Liberato, host of Netflix’s Restaurants on the Edge, has called his soon-to-come The Borscht Belt in the Stockton Market a “love letter to the Jewish delicatessen.
But Russ & Daughters, a New York culinary institution founded by a Jewish immigrant, doesn t see it quite so fondly.
The iconic shop and cafe with four New York locations alleged in an Instagram post that Liberato copied Russ & Daughters design. It did not include a legal threat. The design that you copied for your deli does not even come from a deli, the post reads. You are copying us without credit or an understanding of the food tradition we uphold, while couching your plagiarism as homage to some bygone era that has disappeared.
For a moment, it looked like the kosher-style delicatessen was on its way out, but new businesses are springing up and their female leadership isn't their only twist on tradition