Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food This Bagel Shop Is So Hot You Can Only Buy 3 At A Time
At one of the country’s hottest new bagel shops, the big influence isn’t Montreal or New York. It’s Pizza Hut. “In high school, that’s where I learned the assembly-line approach to making sandwiches!”, laughed Nate Mathews, the Richmond, VA artisan-bagel sensation who just opened his first brick-and-mortar location after years of selling at farmers’ markets…
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Food Molly Yeh Scores New Food Network Show
We can say we knew her when. Forward contributor Molly Yeh, award-winning blogger, and acclaimed cookbook scribe is about to make a big-time television debut. Girl Meets Farm, a Food Network series, shares Yeh’s infectious love of food as it reflects on her unlikely journey from Jewish-Chinese percussionist food blogger to Minnesota farm-dweller and kitchen…
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Food McDonald’s Surrenders To The Magic Of Bagels
What’s next, the McBlintz? To much fanfare north of the border, bagels made their debut at McDonald’s locations across Canada this week. The new breakfast offering “aligns with Canadians’ love of bagels”, the company crowed in a press release. It’s also the company’s latest attempt to capture more of the booming breakfast market – the…
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Food Nobu Sets Its Sights On Israel
Nobu Hospitality has set its sights on Israel. The juggernaut “global lifestyle brand” that counts Robert De Niro as a partner will open its 17th property next year in Tel Aviv. DeNiro’s cohorts in the hotel venture include Nobu Matsuhisa – whose extravagant sushi palaces birthed the brand – and Israeli businessman Meir Teper. The…
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Food Could Cloned Pork Be Kosher?
Along with the fact that Roger Horowitz’s Kosher USA (Columbia University Press) is compulsively readable, the book offers a meticulously researched survey of America’s kosher food industry. Part detective story, part memoir, and part academic treatise, Kosher USA brings a historian’s eye to a defining part of American Jewish life — and to a market…
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Food Is This Max Brenner’s Next Move?
Spoiler alert: There is no actual Max Brenner. The “bald man” behind a wildly popular chain of chocolate-themed cafes is like an Israeli version of Betty Crocker or Colonel Sanders. There is, however, an Oded Brenner, who co-founded the chain with business partner Max Fichtman in a Tel Aviv suburb in 2006. His acrimonious 2012…
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Food A Very Jewish Foodie Rates Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants
It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. For four years, Toronto-based journalist Jacob Richler’s edited Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants, an annual ranking of fine-dining establishments across the Great White North. To much hoopla, Richler released this year’s list last week. Even if you’re not Canadian, Richler’s name might ring a bell. He’s…
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Food A Healthier Sweetener From The Land Of Milk And Honey
Jews and sugar substitutes go way back; Sweet ‘n’ Low, possibly the mother of all artificial sweeteners, was created by the Eisenstadt family in the 1950s. Now comes word that an Israeli company is sweetening the pot. Heylo, a Tel Aviv startup, is unveiling an all-natural “patented sugar alternative” that promises all the decadence with…
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