Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Giant Bagel Menorah Gave Bethesda Toasty Glow
Chew on this: Our post-Hanukkah prize for the year’s best menorah goes to the “Bagel-Norah,” a 10-foot-tall model made from 400 bagels. Who came up with all the dough for this project? Chabad Bethesda in Maryland, whose previous Hanukkah extravaganzas have included giant menorahs of ice, Legos and jelly beans. “You can either just do…
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Culture What Was a Good Jewish Boy Like Him Doing in a Disco Like That?
A “good Jewish boy from New Rochelle” who took up photography after moving to Manhattan, Bill Bernstein got his first freelance assignment from The Village Voice in 1978: Shoot a black-tie dinner for President Jimmy Carter’s mom, Lillian Carter, at a venue called Studio 54. Sensing something sexier when he saw the club readying for…
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Food It’s Kosher in the Bahamas
It was better in the Bahamas — unless you kept kosher. Until now. Atlantis, the massive Paradise Island resort, is partnering with Glatt kosher tour provider Kosherica to offer on-site kosher catering services for the first time. The Atlantis is also touting special “cultural touches,” including a “beautifully decorated chuppah overlooking the crystal-blue Bahamian waters”…
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Food In San Francisco, Fresh Kosher-Israeli Bread for a Fresh Year
Yanni has opened a kosher Israeli bakery in San Francisco. No, not that Yanni. This one’s a 4th-generation baker who goes by one name only and partnered with three friends from Israel to open Taboon. Recipes come from Yanni’s great-grandfather Mosheh, who emigrated from Iraq to Israel and owned a bakery in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda…
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Food L.A. Chef Micah Wexler’s Latke Secrets Revealed!
We pried potato pancake preferences from a few of our favorite chefs around the country — and compiled them into a tell-all to help you make the best latkes of your life. Chef Micah Wexler Restaurant Wexler’s Deli, Los Angeles. Secret ingredient? Shred the potatoes and the onions, then blanche them in boiling water for…
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Food Why Are Stanley and Chaim Celebrating ‘Kissmas’ at Rock & Brews?
Stanley Eisen and Chaim Witz are behind a new chain restaurant in Chesterfield, Missouri. Who cares, you say? Eisen and Witz are better known as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of Kiss, and Rock & Brews is the brand they co-founded and own. Oh, sorry — it’s “an energized dining and entertainment concept offering affordable,…
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49 Reasons Why 2016 Wasn't as Bad as You Think Submission
The book that haunted me most this year, Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission,” didn’t disturb me because of its premise — the election of France’s first Muslim president. What got under my skin was how quickly and subtly change swamps the detached, aimless protagonist, and how viciously the novel points out the smugness and solipsism of the…
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49 Reasons Why 2016 Wasn't as Bad as You Think Yael Peet
It wasn’t just that Chef Yael Peet’s lovingly rendered Japanese food at Karasu felt so personal, or that Peet managed to bring a fresh point of view to a cuisine that’s so often rendered as cliché. It’s also that every dish brought a surprise, whether it was lotus in Peet’s hijiki salad, mentaiko cod roe…
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