Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Beloved Denver Deli Set for Grand Reopening
Denver’s beloved Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessen will finally reopen on October 16, five months after a devastating fire shuttered the business. “It is true,” owner Joshua Pollack told the Denver Post. “It’s going to feel so good to be back in our home.” Forward readers might remember Rosenberg’s as the place that pioneered marijuana-infused smoked…
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Food NYers Told to #NoshTheVote
Some inalienable rights with that falafel? In what we think is a first-ever pairing of voting rights and food, the City of New York this week launched a campaign enlisting food trucks and street carts to distribute voter-registration forms. Related #NoshtheVote was created in partnership with the Urban Justice Center’s Street Vendor Project. Friday October…
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Food Severed Thumb at Kosher Processing Plant Prompts Huge OSHA Fine
A kosher-chicken processing plant with the bucolic-sounding name of Birdsboro Kosher Farms is facing Federal charges after a horrific workplace accident. The plant was slammed with a $317,000 fine from the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a worker lost part of a thumb in a nightmarish mixing-machine mishap. OSHA’s report…
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Food New Year, New Delis
It took 111 years, but Indianapolis’ beloved Shapiro’s is about to open its first location outside its hometown. The deli, whose three current sites include a mall and the Indianapolis airport, will debut in early 2017 in Blue Ash, a heavily Jewish suburb of Cincinnati, reports Cincinnati.com. Shapiro’s signatures include house-cured brisket, homemade cakes and…
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Food Canter’s Is Gambling on Reno
Continuing its conquest of the West, Canter’s is gambling on Reno. The legendary Los Angeles deli will open a branch at the Silver Legacy, a kitschy resort and casino with a Victorian theme. The Reno Gazette-Journal predicts an opening “soon.” More Dish: Michael Kaminer is a contributing editor at the Forward.
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Food Artisanal Bagels Arrive in Richmond
On a recent visit to Richmond, Virginia, I overheard a couple of locals carping about the lack of good bagels. A third person butted in — that’s not just a New York thing — to let them know that Nate’s Bagels had launched. Nate Mathews, a New England transplant, hand-rolls and kettle-boils his bagels, which…
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Food Hot L.A. Chef Inspired by Rosh Foods From Childhood in Israel
Bestia, the Los Angeles hotspot that books up months in advance, doesn’t offer High Holidays menus. But chef Ori Menashe is all about the New Year. His Italian-inspired cuisine is heavily influenced by childhood erev Rosh Hashanah meals prepared by his Georgian-Jewish father in Israel, he tells the Jewish Journal. On the table during these…
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Food Last-Minute Rosh Hashanah Dinner Rescue
There’s still time to plan this year’s Rosh Hashanah meals, whether or not you’re the one at the stove. Offerings from restaurants and purveyors seem especially imaginative this time around — both mindful of tradition and completely fresh. Take the October 2 and 3 Rosh Hashanah dinner at Joe and MissesDoe in New York, where…
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