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Via the Mercury‘s Letters to the Editor…
RE: “Eating Old Portland: SE Powell” [Last Supper, Jan 20], Heather Arndt Anderson’s tour of her favorite haunts on SE Powell.
As an inner-Southeast Portlander for 51 of my 71 years, I enjoy memories (mostly stoned) of these very first places I ate when I moved here. But only Edelweiss Sausage & Delicatessen remains on my list of essentials. As Heather Arndt Anderson writes, they make the absolute best Reuben in Portland. But how could anyone leave out mention of their amazing, delicious assortment of house-made tube meats: a revelatory variety of sausages, salamis, liverwursts, plus smoked ham and turkey, roast beef, potato salads, perfect jerkies—at way better prices and flavors than any other place I know. I don’t feel much like long-distance travel these days, but Edelweiss takes me to places I want to go.
Steve Engel
