After making the rounds at some film festivals, "The Sturgeon Queens," the documentary on Russ & Daughters, has a broadcast premiere date.
Via the film's Facebook page:
"The Sturgeon Queens" will air on Thirteen WNET New York Tues, Dec 2, 10 pm. On WLIW Dec. 3, 7:30pm. Rest of the country will have to wait til 2015, but lots of fest and theatrical screenings still coming...
Here's the storyline via IMDB:
Four generations of a Jewish immigrant family create Russ and Daughters, a Lower East Side lox and herring emporium that survives and thrives.
Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the store, this documentary features an extensive interview with two of the original daughters for whom the store was named, now 100 and 92 years old, and interviews with prominent enthusiasts of the store including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, chef Mario Batali, New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, and 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer.
Rather than a conventional narrator, the filmmakers bring together six colorful longtime fans of the store, in their 80s and 90s, who sit around a table of fish reading the script in the style of a passover Seder.
"For What You Have Been Waiting" - clearly there's an English teacher in the Russ family.
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I lived for a few months in 1972 at Houston and Allen (or 1st & 1st). Loved the neighborhood. Would get my cheap duds on Orchard Street, my knishs at Yonah Schimmel’s and my California dried apricots at Russ & Daughters. For thirty years I stopped every month or so there for the dried fruit but the prices rose and rose and I found a similar product at Trader Joe's at half the price. Still, Russ & Daughters were better apricots.
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