Before he moved to New York, before he started working for celebrated California Jewish deli Wise Sons, before he launched his own catering company, Noah Jacob took a job at Elephant’s Delicatessen — as a teenager.
Jacob, who grew up in Portland’s West Hills, would walk from Lincoln High to Elephant’s after school to work in the kitchen. He continued to work in restaurants through college, eventually moving to New York to get his master’s degree in film. Throughout his New York years, Jacob was just a devotee of Manhattan institutions like Barney Greengrass, Russ & Daughters, and Katz Delicatessen. It wasn’t until he moved to California that he
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