By Stephanie Breijo From Los Angeles Times Los Angeles—Rounds of sliced-thin, pink, white-speckled mortadella are popping up on sandwiches, on charcuterie plates and even in the occasional cocktail in Los Angeles, but it’s hard to view any food item depicted in ancient Roman carvings as a flash in the pan. The Italian deli meat that…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Sunday announced the recall of over 52,000 pounds of ready-to-eat charcuterie sausage products that may be contaminated with listeria. The recall covers a range of products produced by Daniele International LLC between May 23, 2022, and Nov. 25, 2022, and distributed nationwide between…

By Nicholas Goldberg From Los Angeles Times Los Angeles—The long, slow decline of the Jewish delicatessen has been bemoaned and lamented for many years. In the early 1930s, there were more than 1,500 kosher delis and many more non-kosher ones in the five boroughs of New York alone, according to city records. In recent years,…