Lately I’ve been contemplating what I consider vital needs. Things I can’t live without. Safe shelter, electricity in that safe shelter, water. And, yes, toilet paper — although a good friend of mine is abjuring toilet paper in favor of a sort of primitive bidet she put together out of a spray bottle and a towel. (I didn’t delve into this further.)<\/p>\n
But chopped liver is not a vital need, especially for people like me with imperfect cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n
Yet Zabar’s, maven of chopped liver, is saying there are shortages and when there are shortages, their customers get “very, very cranky.”<\/a><\/p>\n I visited Zabar’s a few days ago. I did not notice panic and cranky? When has Zabar’s not had cranky customers? It’s sort of a feature of the place, like the rude waiters at Ratner’s,<\/a> the erstwhile Lower East Side dairy restaurant. (More on Ratner’s<\/a>, because anything written about it tends to be very funny and why shouldn’t you laugh today?)<\/p>\n As you can see, I’m working really hard to keep you all up to date on COVID-19 survival tactics. So as soon as I get my brother-in-law’s fantastic recipe for vegetarian chopped liver, I’ll pass it along.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately I’ve been contemplating what I consider vital needs. Things I can’t live without. Safe shelter, electricity in that safe shelter, water. And, yes, toilet paper — although a good friend of mine is abjuring toilet paper in favor of … Continue reading