Irish ate more pork than beef, but English demands and low prices in the U.S. played a role in creating the annual holiday dish.

You can get corned beef year-round at many Jewish delis and Irish restaurants. Every once in a while, I’ll get the urge to order corned beef hash at a diner. Pretty soon after — as my fingers ...

Irish immigrants living on the Lower East Side opted for corned beef as an alternative to Irish bacon, something they learned about from their Jewish neighbors.

It was at Jewish delis and lunch carts that the Irish experienced corned beef and noticed its similarity to Irish bacon. Cooking the corned beef with cabbage was another choice based on cost ...

Next was the dinner itself, which included both Irish corned beef (dry-cured with salt, sugar and spices, and served in thick slices with cabbage and potatoes) and Jewish corned beef (cured in a ...

Every year our Irish readers comment about the fact that Irish Americans eat corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick's Day instead of bacon. Here's the tradition explained once and for all!

While corned beef wasn’t a traditional dish in Ireland, it quickly became a staple for many Irish Americans, thanks to the influence of Jewish delis in cities like New York and Chicago.