According to Romanian sources, the word ''pastramă'' itself comes from the Turkish word ''pastırma'' (pressed meat), a similar but different specialty (air-dried, unsmoked cured meat).
According to other sources, the Romanian term is itself etymologically rooted in the Romanian ''a păstra'', which means "to keep" or "to preserve".
The Romanian specialty was introduced to the United States in a wave of Romanian Jewish immigration from Bessarabia and Romania in the second half of the 19th century, via the (pronounced ''pastróme''). Early references in English used the spelling "pastrama", closer to the Romanian original. The modified "pastrami" spelling likely was introduced to sound related to the Italian salami.
Although New York's Sussman Volk is generally credited with producing the first pastrami sandwich in 1887, that claim is disputed by the founders of Katz's Deli in New York, which was founded in 1888. Volk, a kosher butcher, claimed he got the recipe from a Romanian friend in exchange for storing the friend's luggage while the friend returned to Romania. According to his descendant, Patricia Volk, Volk prepared pastrami according to the recipe and served it on sandwiches out of his butcher shop. The sandwich was so popular that Volk converted the butcher shop into a restaurant to sell pastrami sandwiches.
Romanian Jews immigrated to New York as early as 1872. Among Jewish Romanians, goose breasts were commonly made into pastrami because they were inexpensive. Beef navels were cheaper than goose meat in America, so the Romanian Jews in America adapted their recipe and began to make the cheaper beef pastrami.
Making foods to sell out of push carts in the Lower East Side of New York was one of the most popular occupations for immigrant Jews in the latter half of the 19th century. Since sandwiches were a hugely popular foodstuff in New York, it is possible Romanian Jewish immigrants were making and selling pastrami sandwiches from push carts on the streets of New York at least a decade before Sussman Volk converted his butcher shop into a restaurant.
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'''s Etymology of ''pastrami, n''. quotes a 1914 advertisement from the Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh) :''Sardines and pimentos‥.Pastrami‥. Rye bread [etc.]''
In North America, pastrami is typically sliced and served generously hot on rye bread, a classic New York deli sandwich (pastrami on rye), sometimes accompanied by coleslaw and Russian dressing. Pastrami and coleslaw are also combined in a Rachel sandwich, a variation of the popular Reuben sandwich that traditionally uses corned beef and sauerkraut.
In Israel, ''pastrami'' is the generic name for cold cut meat.
At fast food stands in Los Angeles, pastrami is typically served hot on a French roll. Typically, the meat is served sliced very thin with some of the brine wetting the meat. Traditional accompaniments in Southern California include yellow mustard and pickles. Also popular in Southern California is a hamburger topped with pastrami, lettuce, tomato, onions, mustard, ketchup, and thousand island dressing, known as the Colossal Burger. Classic pastrami sandwiches are usually composed of hot pastrami right out of the steamer, sliced and layered on double-baked Jewish-style rye bread.
Greek immigrants to Salt Lake City in the early 1960s introduced a hamburger topped with pastrami and a special sauce. The pastrami burger has remained a staple of local burger chains in Utah; the most famous are served at Crown Burger.
In New York City, the delicatessen Barney Greengrass sells "pastrami salmon," which is essentially a piece of salmon coated in cracked peppercorns and smoked.
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