MONTREAL — When the question is asked which Jewish food has most defined Montreal, the near-unanimous answer is bagels. And while the doughy rings may be the Jewish community’s best-known culinary contributions to the city, they’re not the only one. There’s Schwartz’s smoked meat, still located in the same small storefront where it was founded by a Romanian Jewish immigrant in 1928. “Montreal is really well known for Jewish food, especially bagels and smoked meat,” said Katherine Romanow, the food historian who designed the tour. Montreal’s Jewish population expanded in the 1880s, when waves of Ashkenazi Jews fleeing persecution in eastern Europe settled in the bustling, multi-ethnic neighbourhoods around Montreal’s St-Laurent Boulevard.

Source: National Post September 24, 2018 14:37 UTC