Leah Koenig
By Leah Koenig
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Food When Breakfast Is Main Course at Summer Camp
I never went to Jewish summer camp as a kid, and I regret it. Aside from capture the flag games, color war and lake swimming, I missed out on those critical opportunities for Jewish community bonding and identity forging that can only happen around a blazing campfire, or during a hike up a craggy mountain….
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Food B&H Dairy’s Triumphant Return
The Lower East Side Dairy restaurant, closed in the 2nd Avenue fire, lives to see another day. Here, B&H’s delicious blintzes, photographed by . These days, the typical tale of mom & pop restaurants, small scale bookstores, indie art supply shops, dive bars and many other historical landmarks in New York City goes something like…
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Food Revisiting the Humble Danish
Oh, to have lived in New York when the Danish was king! For the first part of the 20th century, the buttery pastry could be found in virtually every bakery and diner across the city. Filled with raisins, sweetened cheese or jam, they were the ideal on-the-go breakfast indulgence to complete a cup of coffee…
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Recipes Beyond the Bagel — Moving Breakfast
Moving is always hard. Moving in New York City is harder. The real estate game is hyper competitive and frenzied, and one rarely ends up with more than a month (often much less) to whittle down, then gather up belongings before handing over the keys. As my family and I packed up our apartment to…
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Food Confessions of a Herring Hater
A trio of pickled herring on pumpernickel from Russ & Daughters Café (above) may be an exemplary version of the classic Eastern-European breakfast staple — but it couldn’t convince our author to give up her intense dislike of the stuff. I want to love herring. I do. The oily little fish are healthy (packed with…
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Food A Birthday Brunch for My Son Max
For her baby’s first birthday, Leah Koenig made a chocolate cake decorated with blueberries that her husband’s parents picked at a nearby fruit farm. Our baby boy Max turned one last Saturday. Somehow, without adequate warning, the tiny, wrinkled bundle we so gingerly cradled during the first weeks of his life had reached the brink…
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Recipes Russian Black Tea and Cherry Jam
In the library at my childhood synagogue in suburban Chicago, there was a book that I dearly loved. I don’t remember the title. Truthfully, I don’t even remember what it was about. What I do vividly remember is that the book had a passage describing the Russian custom of drinking black tea with cherry jam….
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Recipes Beyond the Bagel — Happy Toast
This simple breakfast recipe has a secret ingredient, which might just make the perfect summer pairing of tomatoes and basil even more delicious. Nutritional yeast is, without question, the best thing to come out of the two years I spent as a vegan. Soy milk, not so much. To the uninitiated, nutritional yeast admittedly sounds…
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