Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Pigging Out With Chef Leah Cohen
Chef Leah Cohen sounds so restless that it’s almost hard to believe she’s settled down to run a restaurant. After years of toiling in A-list Manhattan kitchens like Eleven Madison Park and Centro Vinoteca — and taking a star turn on Bravo’s Top Chef — Cohen crisscrossed Asia for a year exploring food of her…
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Food Deli Is Dubbed Solomon’s To Honor Tower Records Founder
If you’re a music lover of a certain age, you probably have fond memories of Tower Records, the gargantuan stores that seemed to carry every audible work ever recorded. Now, a Sacramento deli is being named in honor of Tower founder and native son Russ Solomon, who is 91. Solomon’s Deli will open in late…
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Food Maury Povich Buys a D.C. Bar
Two Jewish media stars walk into a bar… …and buy it. No joke: Sports commentator Tony Kornheiser and talk-show maven Maury Povich have purchased Chad’s, a popular hangout for Washington, D.C., media folk for decades. The pair plans to upgrade the beer and wine menu, build a podcast studio for Kornheiser’s online chat show and…
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Food Unkosher Comedy Series Puts Treyf Front and Center
Some would argue that there’s nothing funny about treyf. And the trio behind [“Traif (An Unkosher Series),”](An Unkosher Series ““Traif (An Unkosher Series),””) a new online comedy based on Brooklyn’s very real Traif restaurant, would argue that they’re wrong. When Chef Jason Marcus opened the eatery — a bagel’s throw from Satmar enclaves in Wiliamsburg…
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Food Katz’s Deli — With a British Accent?
Apparently, Monty’s Deli is the new Katz’s. At least that’s what owner Marc Ogus is saying about his new London deli, opening this month in the city’s historically Jewish East End. Ogus and co-owner Owen Barratt, both in their 20s, are promising pastrami, “bottomless coffee, brunch — including a giant potato latke and fried egg…
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Food Marvelous Macarons, From Russia With Love
How’s this for an only-in-New-York story: Russian Jew meets Israeli-born Frenchman on a trip to New York. She leaves Moscow to join him in Manhattan. They start an artisan macaron business. And Macy’s Herald Square courts them to open a shop. It’s not a movie script. It’s Polina Andris’s life, and Made by Pauline is…
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Food How to Taste 300 Kosher Wines in a Day
Time to pick a designated driver: More than 300 kosher wines and spirits will be on hand for sampling at this year’s Kosher Food & Wine Experience, the annual extravaganza hosted by distributor Royal Wine. Among wines making their debut at KWFE 2017, February 13 at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, are Terra di Seta Assai,…
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Food The Latest in Kosher Food Delivery
Kosher by drone? That’s probably next. In the meantime, there’s Koshwhere, a new service that delivers kosher packaged meals to travelers who preorder through an app. Launched by a former IDF soldier, Koshwhere fills orders through a network of more than 400 kosher kitchens — and delivers to more than 200,000 non-kosher hotels and Airbnb…
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