Blair Thornburgh
By Blair Thornburgh
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Food Will Travel for Food: Chatting With Jodi Ettenberg
When Jodi Ettenberg quit her job as a New York lawyer to travel around the world and chronicle her journey on a blog called Legal Nomads, she thought she was going on a year-long trip. That was four years ago. Since then, traveling and experiencing places through food has become her passion and vocation. She…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Jewish Food Porn; Helen Nash
Food porn alert: Eater gets a first look inside “The Mile End Cookbook.” Even the matzo looks mouthwatering… [Eater] Tips and ideas for cooking with the flavorful sesame, salt, sumac and herb mixture of za’atar. [Epicurious] Back-to-school tips from a new blog dealing with kosher, allergen-free living. [Kosher Food Allergies] At home with kosher culinary…
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Food 8 Cookbooks To Bite Into This Fall
A new season means a new crop of cookbooks, and this fall’s set to be spectacular. Eater recently put up a two-part post with their top picks. From fresh spins on Jewish deli fare to Middle Eastern comfort food to new books by big names like Mark Bittman and Jacques Pepin, there’s plenty of volumes…
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Culture Fun Times at Hebrew School
For generations of Jewish kids, Hebrew school has meant three or four, often boring, afternoons a week of classroom lectures and laborious language learning in a set curriculum. But thanks to a radical new pilot program starting this fall in New York City, students from third to seventh grades can learn about Jewish history, religion…
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The Schmooze Choosing The Chosen: Katherine Williams’s Shiksappeal
At one point in “SHIKSAPPEAL: Getting the Chosen to Choose Me,” a one-woman show that recently appeared at the New York Fringe Festival, Catholic comedienne Katherine Williams is confronted by a Jewish friend over her identity as self-appointed shiksa: “You do know that’s derogatory, right?” Williams shrugs it off without missing a beat. “It just…
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Food New Delis on the Block — Which Is the Best?
Move over, Katz’s and Langer’s: the Jewish deli’s got a new schtick. Bon Appetit’s blog recently ran down the “Best new Jewish Delis in America,” and the four featured spots are putting an artisanal spin on the classic sandwich joint fare. Rye Delicatessen & Bar prides itself on being “not your grandma’s delicatessen” and using…
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The Schmooze Harvey Weinstein Marked for Death?
Investigators say Hollywood heavy-hitter Harvey Weinstein was one of several targets of death threats and extortion attempts from an aspiring actor, the New York Post reports. Federal agents arrested 25-year-old West Hollywood resident Vivek Shah on Aug. 10 at his parents’ home in Schaumburg, Ill., on the charge of sending threatening interstate communications to the…
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Food Putting the ‘Goldenberg’ Back Into Peanut Chews
For die-hard fans of local food specialties, the prevailing wisdom seems to be you are where you eat. Just Born, the company that manufactures retro favorite Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews, found itself in a sticky situation when its experiment with a flashy national brand that wiped the Goldenberg’s name off the label left fans of the…
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