The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick’s Day meal
— Read on www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/
My daughter told me about this fascinating article about the close ties Irish immigrants developed with their Jewish neighbors in America. What we think of as Irish corned beef was actually meat that the newly arrived Irish could finally afford to eat (now that they weren’t starving under Great Britain’s rule), and they purchased it from the Jewish delicatessens.
Katherine Wikoff 
Jewish delicatessens are awesome. There’s one around here I try to visit every time I’m in the area. Next time I go, I’ll get some corned hash!
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Oops. I mean corned beef!
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Maybe with leftovers to be hash later!
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Great idea!
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Mmm, I love corned beef! My Singaporean mother would make us a treat sometimes with corned beef and so it’s always kind of oddly seemed Asian to me just by association 😂
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I love that story! I wonder if corned beef was something from her own childhood or something she discovered as an adult? Food origins and the variety of forms certain dishes can assume in different cultures (like fried chicken, for example, or noodles) has always fascinated me.
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I’ll have to ask her, but as a child growing up in a British colony, she ate a lot of English food, and tinned corned beef may have been one of those foods. I am curious!
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