This took 32 years to perfect.
No matter how steely gray the skies get outside, the light inside George’s Sausage & Delicatessen (907 Madison St, 622-1491) is always golden and warm, as if you walked into a flashback from a Scorsese movie. It’s a tiny storefront; 10 people would make the room uncomfortable. There are shelves packed with products—cookies, crackers, candy, pickled goods, fresh rye bread as black as ink—imported from Poland and other Eastern European countries. And for carnivores, this is the promised land: Right in the middle of the room is a case full of gorgeous sausages and deli meat—bowls filled with sausage links, hams, liverwurst…