Philip Tashman

... When Simcha grew older, he arranged to take his meals with different /andsleit each day. This was known in Yiddish as “‘eating days.’’ When Simcha Tzfas visited a well-known Buialystoker butcher, Philip Tashman of Yonkers, he found on the table a two and a half pound loaf of bread, several rolls, and a whole herring with onions soaked in vinegar. Then he devoured a large plate of meat (a butcher always had meat — particu- larly when a pound cost seven to eight cents). Simcha was also treated to a large bowl of barley soup, after which he consumed an entire salami weighing a pound and a half. Certainly no good meal could pass without ‘some spirits’’ and a pint of beer. ...