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 Rose Levy Beranbaum Is Back With a New ‘Bible’
Rose Levy Beranbaum. Photograph by Ben Fink. The first time I met the magnificent baker and cookbook author Rose Levy Beranbaum, she brought me a baggie of bread. It wasn’t long after 9/11, and Beranbaum was baking like mad, developing recipes for “The Bread Bible,” which would be published in the fall of 2003. I…
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Food Junior’s Bucks a Trend to Maintain a Tradition
This summer wasn’t kind to New York restaurant lovers. In June, Wylie Dufresne announced that he’d be closing the doors of his pioneering modernist restaurant WD50. Soon after, Danny Meyer said that Union Square Café would be leaving its original location when its lease expired at the end of the year. Finally, some good news….
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Food Russ and Daughters Heads Uptown
Michael Harlan Turkell As a kid growing up on New York’s Upper East Side, I had appetizing envy. My West Side friends had Zabar’s, Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, and Barney Greengrass. Downtown, of course, there was Russ & Daughters. Sure, there were a few Jewish delis like P.J. Bernstein’s, and eventually fancier shops like Sable’s, but…
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