Liza Schoenfein is a former food editor of the Forward and author of the blog Life, Death & Dinner. Follow her on Instagram @LifeDeathDinner.
Liza Schoenfein
By Liza Schoenfein
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Food Streit’s Matzo Factory to Close
Streit’s Matzo The Streit family announced today that it will close the doors of its 90-year-old factory this spring, at the conclusion of the Passover baking season. The announcement was made by filmmaker Michael Levine, who had been working on a documentary about the company, Streit’s Matzo and the American Dream, for the past two…
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Recipes Jewel-Toned Winter Slaw
Photograph by Liza Schoenfein I’m nominating my friend Judy for the position of Slaw Queen. This evening, at her annual New Year’s open house, one of the delicious dishes on her buffet table was a gingery beet-and-carrot slaw in a lime dressing. It was beautiful to look at and even better to eat — light…
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Food Three Forward Faves Make Times Top 10
Russ & Daughters Cafe is one of Pete Wells’s top 10 restaurants of 2014. Photograph by Jen Snow and Kelli Anderson. New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells just came out with his list of the 10 best new restaurants of 2014, and I was excited to see that three of them are among my…
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Food Making Gold-Dusted Gelt with Eliot Glazer
The other day I came across a link on Tablet to a Munchies video of comedian Eiot Glazer in a kitchen, wearing an apron and making gold-dusted Hanukkah gelt. The gelt looked really good, and Glazer’s banter was a hoot — take a look. (Start paying attention to the video close to the 1½-minute mark…
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Food 8 Nights of Food Gifts: Someone Else’s Sufganiyot
Photograph courtesy of Breads Bakery I cannot tell a lie: I’ve never made sufganiyot. I feel a little sheepish about this, because when you’re a food editor and a recipe developer, as I am, people seem to expect that you’ve done it all. I was so impressed when I read Gayle Squires’ story last week…
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Recipes Keeping Up with the Pollans
Foodie Family: The Pollan women are (from left to right) sisters Dana, Tracy and Lori and their mother, Corky. Photograph by John Kernick. The members of my family are, for the most part, smart, accomplished, attractive and close to one another. I’ve always been pretty keen on them. But now that I have a window…
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Food Obama Chef Sam Kass to Leave the White House
White House chef Sam Kass is packing up his knives and heading to New York to be with his bride. The White House announced today that Sam Kass — private chef to the Obamas, senior policy advisor on nutrition policy and executive director of the first lady’s Let’s Move! Initiative — has resigned. Kass, 34,…
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Food Gil Marks, Jewish Food Scholar, Dies at 62
Triumphant in 2005 after accepting the James Beard award for ‘Olive Trees and Honey.’ The Jewish culinary world has lost one of its brightest lights. Gil Marks, avid food historian and author of the pivotal “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food,” for which he earned a place on the Forward 50 in 2010, died in Jerusalem today…
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