The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
I work for a small company owned and run by a Jewish family
One of their favorite jokes goes like this:
You can’t hold us in a prison cell! We eat lox for breakfast!
(And we do indeed have bagels and lox brought in regularly)