Fress Takes: An evening with Amy and Jake Dell - Thursday, May 14, 2026

What happens when the daughter of a legendary Sephardic chef and the fifth-generation owner of New York's most iconic deli walk into a room together? You get one of the most delicious conversations in Jewish food. Amy Dell, founder of Sababa Foods, grew up eating her father's matbucha every Saturday morning at their kitchen table in Queens. That recipe became the basis for Saturday Sauce — and the rest is history. Her husband Jake Dell has spent his career guarding another kind of history: Katz's Delicatessen, open on the Lower East Side since 1888. Together they'll sit down for a candid conversation about legacy, the difference between Sephardic and Ashkenazi food traditions, what it's really like to be in the food business as a couple, and why great Jewish food is for everyone. The evening includes a live Saturday Sauce demo, dinner catered by Katz's Deli, and every guest goes home with a jar of Saturday Sauce and a NOOISH Matzo Ball Soup.