Q. Where can you get great deli food, if you don’t live in/near a city?

A. Nowhere. At least nowhere here in King Arthur’s home in the Upper Valley of Vermont, that river bottomland where the Connecticut River divides Vermont from New Hampshire, about midway up the two states’ common border.

Sure, we have bagel shops. Even a newly opened spot called “New York Bagels and Café,” right there in the shopping plaza next to J.C. Penney and Kohl’s and Sears.

But REAL deli?

Fuggedaboutit.

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